What was more surprising, that Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan announced their separation this week, or the news that they’ve actually been living apart for months now? I think I’m more surprised that Channing apparently moved out of their LA house months ago and we never heard anything about it. Clearly, they were having issues and clearly, they care deeply about each other and their daughter. So with all of those good feelings, why couldn’t they just weather the storm? I don’t know. But “sources” really want us to know that they DID try.
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan fought to save their marriage. Tatum and Dewan, both 37, announced the end of their eight-year marriage on Monday. A source close to the couple tells PEOPLE the pair tried to make things work after “growing apart” over the past year.
“They really wanted to make their marriage work,” a source tells PEOPLE. “But neither of them are people who will stay in something that isn’t fully right.”
The former couple, who have been separated for months, struggled with the idea of calling it quits.
“They fell out of love, and it was a tough realization to come to,” adds the source. “They are both just incredibly sad.”
Moving forward, the two are focused on co-parenting their four-year-old daughter Everly.
“They’re amazing parents and are determined to stay a family,” says the source. “Their daughter is their world.”
“This has been a long time coming,” another insider says. “Like any marriage, they’ve had their ups and downs over the years but they really started to grow apart within the last year.”
Here’s another question: what’s more depressing, the idea that Channing and Jenna broke up because of something shady like cheating, or the idea that they broke up because life’s a bitch and sometimes you can have all the love in the world for someone and still fall out of love with them? Who would have thought that Channing and Jenna’s split would get so dark, man?
E! News has a story that has a similar version of everything else we’ve been hearing – go here to read. Sources insist that “it’s been over for a while…They had been trying for a long time to see if they could make it work. It became clear over the last year that they wanted different things and were no longer on the same path.” The source says, “The things that fulfilled them didn’t line up.” I still believe that as the years kept going by, Jenna felt a bit like “why not me?” as she watched Channing become a global star and one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood. She was proud of him, clearly, but she also had to watch his star rise as she did sh-tty TV shows that kept getting canceled. It’s not a bad thing to be ambitious, to want to be famous and acclaimed. And it wasn’t happening for her and I bet that was part of it too.
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