Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's divorce last year really did blew the internet away. After they have announced their "conscious uncoupling" spiel, countless reactions came up - feeling sad for the loss of yet another promising celebrity couple who has been together for 10 years.
Fast forward to today, Gwyneth Paltrow was able to light heartedly share her frustrations about her failed marriage with Chris Martin, when asked by an audience during the Pearl xChange, an event hosted by Nicole Richie.
Huffington Post reported that Paltrow was asked: What life endeavor didn't turn out at all like you thought it would and what did you learned from it?
In which the actress answered: "My marriage."
Paltrow then described an almost perfect relationship setting from her families and close friends who stick by their marriages.
"I am from a tribe of people who stay married. My parents stayed married until my dad died, for 32 years. All of my high school friends who I've grown up with and kindergarten friends, they're all married," she says. "I really don't come from a culture of divorce at all."
She continues to say that she had high hopes on the concept of forever with her then husband Chris Martin, even pointed out the fact that it was hard for her to accept the fact that she won't have the happy ending she had hoped for.
"I had very high hopes for what my life would be like," she says. "I absolutely assumed that I would be in a long, successful marriage -- which is happy and sad and hard, and all that. It was very difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that I couldn't do that and I wouldn't be able to be married to the father of my children for the rest of my life."
She candidly shared that the whole process taught her a lot as a woman.
"There's a whole piece of it that I ended up learning an amazing amount from, but it was that real acceptance of, 'This isn't going to work out the way I had hoped,' and what does that mean about who I am?" she says.
Paltrow and Martin officially divorced March of this year, but they have managed to co-parent their two children -- Apple, 11, and Moses, 9 - from meeting for brunch to spending holidays as a family.
