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Cameron Diaz and Benny Madden attribute their strong partnership to therapy.
“So therapy is a big thing in our family, thank God,” Diaz, 52, said on the Tuesday, Dec. 10, episode of Son-in-law Joel Madden‘s “Artist friendly.”” podcasts. “That’s what we depend on, so you have that commitment to work on it.”
Diaz explained that she and Benji, 45, use therapy to prevent themselves from doing “the same thing over and over again” while trying to figure out how to get a different end result on a problem. Instead, the couple uses therapy to self-reflect on why the action led to the case.
“Why didn’t it work?” How do I do that? What is my role? What is the other person’s business?” she thought. “Let’s be self-aware and go into the next attempt a little more equipped to hopefully come out with a different outcome.”
Cameron Diaz has dated several celebrities, but never thought she’d get married until she started dating her now-husband, Benny Madden, in May 2014. “(Marrying) was the biggest thing I’ve done in my 40s them, and it opened up to me in different ways,” Diaz told Harper’s Bazaar in May 2016, 16 months after she and the rock star (…)
Joel, for his part, echoed similar sentiments, sharing that he and the woman Nicole Richie they are too avid therapy users.
“Either solve something or create a new understanding of a new process together,” the Good Charlotte singer said. “It’s like going to the gym and learning new moves, building strength.”
Diaz also explained that from her perspective, both partners they must be fully committed to each other and their family in order to maintain a strong relationship.
“It goes back to wanting to do it. “You can’t be married and have a family if … both people are not 100 percent every day,” she said. No one can have 99 and another 100.
The actress added that even in the worst days for a couple, there should still be a solid foundation.
“Even if you’re mad (at) each other and don’t want to see each other (or) sick of each other, it’s still 100 percent commitment to the marriage and the partnership and getting things going in the family,” she said. “If it’s not 100 percent, it just doesn’t work if one person is in a deficit.”
Benji and Diaz got married in 2015 after almost a year of dating. A couple shares daughter of Radix4 i the son of a cardinal8 months. Diaz said Tuesday that she is “most grateful” for her marriage and family with Benji.
“It was the best thing that ever happened to me.” I was older than (Benji) as well as the fact that I hadn’t found him before… I was there a lot longer than him,” she recalls. “You know how much we have grown together over the past decade and how much we have achieved.” I don’t know how either of us would have done it without each other.”
