'When you've been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in,' Smith wrote in an email to The New York Times.
"When you've been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in," Smith wrote in an email to| Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Smith explained that the 52-year-old actress had "lived a life more on the edge than he had realized" and that she is more "resilient, clever, and compassionate than he had understood," according to"When you've been with someone for more than half of your life, a sort of emotional blindness sets in," Smith wrote. "And you can all too easily lose your sensitivity to their hidden nuances and subtle beauties.
Pinkett Smith went on to say that she kept the separation a secret as a result of "not being ready yet" and "still trying to figure out between the two of us how to be in partnership" with each other in terms of how they presented to the public.
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