Jessica Alba spills secret to successful 15-year marriage to Cash Warren – as she talks ‘needing space’ and ‘always communicating’

Jessica Alba has been with Cash Warren for nearly twenty years.

And now the Into The Blue actress is sharing some secrets of a long-lasting relationship after meeting 19 years ago and getting married four years later.

The 42-year-old Hollywood star – who has Honor, 15, Haven, 12, and Hayes, five, with her husband – told Entertainment tonight it comes down to an open conversation.

“I think sometimes it’s about the communication, and sometimes it’s about the communication,” she said.

“Sometimes it’s, “I need my space, I’ll talk to you (later).” When I (you, I say): “I miss you, will you come back?” It’s about always communicating how you feel.’

Alba also said that they ‘see things differently’ but ‘just talk it out and we always come to a solution.’

She added: “We are rational people… We know about compromise. It’s an art.’

Cash recently admitted that their romance isn’t always easy.

The 44-year-old producer admitted that their relationship goes through “cycles.”

During an appearance on the Whine Down podcast, Cash shared, “You can go months when your energy is just gone. It’s not like you’re actively fighting those months, but your energy is gone.

“Just having the patience to know that eventually it will come back together and your energy will realign.

“Once I go through a few of those cycles, I don’t get so nervous anymore and I start looking at the door. I don’t get so nervous anymore when you drift apart or when you run out of energy. ‘

Cash and Jessica have developed a really good understanding of each other over time.

The producer explained that the couple in love has different ways to solve their problems.

He said, “She’s on the same page there, so when we’re going through those times, we give each other the space we need, talk about it, or maybe go on a date night.” You try to do things to get it back. Fortunately I have a partner who is a bit involved.’

Warren also revealed that he and Alba briefly split their relationship for “four years” due to his jealousy issues.

He said that when they “first started dating,” he was “very jealous of other guys and the attention she was getting from other guys.”

Warren added, “It just didn’t make me feel good. I used to be a pretty confident person… And before you know it, I look up and I’m just jealous all the time.”

The envy led to their splitting up briefly after he “started turning into an asshole.”

‘We broke up. And during that time we weren’t together, if we ever got back together, I made a promise to myself to channel that in a different way, in a more productive way,” the father of three shared. listeners.

As for the key to their long and successful union, Warren spoke about the evolution of their relationship over the years and patience.

“If you’re dating for the first time and you’re together and you get into a fight, you make up right away. And then you get into a fight and make up a few days later,” Warren said.

Now Warren considers himself Alba’s “biggest cheerleader.”

“I tried to be a good teammate in that respect. I’m not interested in the spotlight,” he insisted. “I’m not a star, I’m not a celebrity, I’m not an actor, I never aspired to be an actor. I give her a high five, let her do her thing and I’ve gotten more and more comfortable with it over the years.”

To best support his wife, the entrepreneur stated that he has always encouraged Alba to pursue her passion and career and not to “make sacrifices.”

Warren noted that he has told his wife not to “feel guilty for leaving the kids alone this week or that week” because “eventually they’ll grow up and forget the fact that you’ve been here for these three days or these was gone for five days. to dawn.

“We live, we forgive, we forget,” he said.

The couple first met on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004, where Alba starred as Sue Storm and Warren worked as an assistant director.

This comes after Alba said her children are “ashamed” of her dancing.

The star plays a wannabe choreographer in the 2003 movie Honey, but revealed that her kids have probably never seen the hit movie and have told her she “don’t know” how to dance amid the rise of TikTok fads.

She told ETCanada, “They said they saw it, but I don’t believe them. I think they may have seen bits of it, but I don’t know.

“They said, ‘Mom, you don’t even know how to do it. You don’t know how to do this dance!’ And I thought, ‘I’m honey. What are you talking about?’ I was like, ‘shall we YouTube me.

“Let’s look on YouTube and see that your mom can dance and they’re like, ‘Mom, it’s so embarrassing!’

The Good Luck Chuck star previously explained that she wants her kids to “stay grounded” as she reflected on her own upbringing before she became famous.

She told People magazine, “I grew up with parents who each worked three jobs and lived paycheck to paycheck. I started acting at a young age so I probably have a different understanding and then maybe look at a lot of people in my circumstances as to what it means to struggle and how you want to be treated if you were ever in that circumstance.

“I always want my kids to be grounded and understand that they can do something about it — and that they never take anything for granted.”