Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been married since 1997, have two children - 21-year-old Jaden and 19-year-old Willow - and have long been rumored to have an open relationship, which means partners agree on the possibility of having intimate relationships with other people. Rumors about their relationship were added recently, where a singer stated that there had relations with Jada-n, with Will Smith approval. Here is what they have said over the years about each other.

They can do whatever they want

"I've always said to Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you're able to see yourself in the mirror,'" Jada told the Huffington Post in 2013. "Because at the end of the day, Will is herself. "

At the time, the public referred to the statement as an open relationship, while Jada explained what it meant: ?An open relationship. When I say he can do whatever he wants, I mean we trust each other. That doesn't mean we're in an open relationship. "

They have no eyes for each other

Prior to Jada's interview, Will Smith revealed that he and his wife are open to being sexually attracted to other people. "If it comes down to it, one might say, 'Listen, I need to have sex with someone,'" he told the Daily Mail in 2005. "I'm not going to go if she doesn't approve - but to please approve. ?

They have a relationship built on trust

Jada has expressed that she trusts her husband when it comes to other relationships.

"At the end of the day, I'm not observing anyone," she told Howard Stern in 2015. "I am not his observer. He is an adult. I trust Will, he is a man of integrity. He has all the freedom in the world and as long as he sees himself in the mirror and he's fine, I'm fine. "

Jada said it was pointless for Will not to think about other women on the sexual side.

"I am not the kind of woman who believes that her husband will not be attracted to other women. This is unrealistic and just because a man withdraws from others does not mean that he does not love you. If he doesn't see the beauty of another woman, how the hell will he see yours? ?

They will always stay married

Despite the ups and downs of their relationship, Will and Jada Smith have stated that divorce is not in their choices. "Will and I are a family. I will always be close to him, no matter what happens. We are partners. At the end of the day, this man can count on me for the rest of his life, ?she said in 2018.

They are partners

Although married, Jada and Will consider themselves life partners instead of husband and wife. They do not celebrate wedding anniversaries. "It's more of a life partnership, so there's no day-to-day connection," she said in an episode of her 2019 Red Table Talk show on Facebook.

Personal choices and pleasures

In one of his Facebook videos, Will Smith spoke about marriage, which he described as follows:

"Jada and I were reflecting on love. I asked him what was the unknown thing he had learned about love. He replied that we are not capable and we do not have to make a person happy. I thought it was a really deep idea. You can make a man smile or feel good, but if he?s unhappy, that?s something completely out of your control. I remember the day I gave up. I told Jada that I was giving up trying to make you happy. I need you to be the one to take care of your happiness. Prove to me that you can. And after this idea came to mind, we began to think about the wrong romantic concept of love. We have the idea that after marriage we become one, we are a single person, but what Jada and I realized was that we are not one. We are two completely different people, in completely different journeys we had chosen to make the road together. But her happiness is her responsibility and vice versa, my happiness is my responsibility. And so we decided to pursue our dreams and personal pleasures all by ourselves, to find happiness and to be happy in marriage. It's unfair to leave our happiness in someone else's hands. "

What is intimacy

In one episode of the show, Jada showed how coronavirus affected her relationship with her husband. "I want to be honest. One of the things I realized was that I didn't know Will at all, "she said. "Life is busy and you create these stories in your head and then you get caught up in those stories and create an idea for your partner, an idea that has nothing to do with it."

She added that "she is going through the process of removing all stories and ideas about Will" in order to better understand her husband. "This is intimacy," Jada said. "To be able to achieve what our loved ones are beyond what we conceive."

Setting boundaries

Will and Jada's marriage is built on trust, but there have been moments of doubt. In 2019, Jada revealed that while she believes Will can do what she wants, there have been some moments when other women have gone too far in relation to Will. "I know who I am and most importantly, does he know who I am or she?" she said.

Having a relationship with someone else

Rumors of an open relationship still persist. Recently, a singer, August Alsina, claimed to have been in a relationship with Jada and Will gave her permission. But Pinkett Smith representatives said it was "absolutely untrue."

Source: New York Post, People