In a brand new interview with The New York Occasions, Stiller, defined how separating from Taylor helped the couple discover their means again to one another and worth their marriage much more.

“After we separated, it was simply having area to see what our relationship was, what my life felt like after we weren’t in that relationship, how a lot I liked our household unit,” Stiller stated. “It was like three or 4 years that we weren’t collectively however we all the time had been linked. In my thoughts, I by no means did not need us to be collectively.”

The actors — who wed in 2000 and share two youngsters, daughter Ella, 22, and son Quinlin, 19 — separated in 2017 however reconciled through the pandemic, after they’d moved again in collectively.

“I do not know the place Christine was, you’d must ask her, however COVID put us all collectively in the identical home,” the Severance director defined, noting it was “virtually a yr of residing in the identical home earlier than we had been really collectively” once more.

“However I am so grateful for it, and I feel not that many individuals do come again collectively after they separate,” he gushed. “There’s nothing like that, if you come again. You’ve got a lot extra appreciation for what you may have, as a result of we all know we couldn’t have it.”

Stiller first revealed that he and Taylor reconciled in February 2022, telling Esquire on the time, “We had been separated and acquired again collectively and we’re completely satisfied about that. It has been actually great for all of us. Surprising, and one of many issues that got here out of the pandemic.”

Taylor opened up about their separation whereas on The Drew Barrymore Present in 2023, admitting that she and Stiller “acquired married in a short time after assembly one another” and finally “began to develop in several instructions.”

Their separation, she stated, was “not one thing we took flippantly” and regardless of separating as a pair, they “all the time stayed a household unit.”

“It was form of like we had been each at this deadlock of ‘let’s determine what’s finest: What’s finest for one another at this chapter in our lives?’ … That point aside for every of us to form of get to know who we’re — I feel we’ve these progress spurts at the same time as adults,” she stated on the time. “I really feel like we would have liked a while to determine that out.”

After reconciling, Taylor stated she and Stiller are “so good” and realized that their “historical past” collectively supplied the pair with a degree of “freedom and luxury.”