Kate Bosworth and Michael Polish are going their separate ways after nearly 10 years together – nearly 8 of them married.
The Blue Crush actress went on Instagram on Thursday (August 5) with their announcement.
“The beginning is often the best part of love. Fireworks, magnets, rebellion — the attraction. The onset signals a wide open expanse of possibility. Split a burger with someone when you are falling in love, and you can die happily knowing this is your last meal. Buy a bottle of whiskey and share shots, pour me a waterfall. Play that perfect song on the jukebox and dance with someone you have known your whole life, though you met minutes ago,” Kate began on Instagram.
“Inherently we fear an ending. To lose what you have because you got what you wanted. To be attached to the expectation of the outcome. The great Unknown. What if we chose not to fear but instead, to love. If that most delicate and vulnerable last flicker to the flame became another type of furnace entirely. Perhaps this will sound strange to some, romantic to others. To us: this is truth,” she continued.
While they have decided to separate, they are doing so with love.
“Our hearts are full, as we have never been so enamored and deeply grateful for one another as we do in this decision to separate. Together, over the last ten years, Michael and I have chosen love, every time. We hold hands as tightly today as we entangled fingers on our wedding day. Our eyes look more deeply into one another, with more courage now. In the process of letting go, we have come to acknowledge that our love will never end. The connection does not simply disappear. The love deepens, the heart expands,” she explained.
She also shares that the next chapter of their lives is an evolution of their relationship – and is just the beginning of being collaborators and friends.
“We know the 4 am calls are coming. Songs will be exchanged to communicate only what songs can do. We laugh as we plan for our next movie together and are excited to share our latest collaboration. We believe the most epic love stories are those which transcend expectation. Our greatest honor has been to experience love like this, and to continue to marvel at the beauty of love’s evolution. What happens when we reach the end of something and realize … we are just at the beginning,” she went on.
“This is love. And we will drink that down. Kate + Michael,” Kate concluded her statement.
Kate and Michael began dating in 2011 after working together on Big Sur – he directed her in the film. The pair took their relationship to the next level in 2012 and tied the knot a year after announcing their engagement.
Kate has previously described their relationship as a “sacred union.”
“You know, I just didn’t have it written down on paper what marriage looked like to me. I didn’t have the dress. I didn’t have the ring. I didn’t have that all planned out until I met the man. I didn’t even know if I wanted to! And then, when I met Michael, it became very clear that it was a sacred union. All of a sudden marriage meant something so much more concrete than it ever had before,” she told Elle UK in a 2015 interview. “Marriage felt like a fantasy to me before, you know? I didn’t know how to personally relate to it sincerely. But then when I met him I thought, ‘This is a bond that I want to cement.'”
