Jon Hamm didn’t need a document to validate his relationship with Jennifer Westfeldt. “We may not have a piece of paper that says we’re husband and wife, but after 10 years, Jennifer is more than just a girlfriend,” Hamm told the New York Post in 2008. “What we have is much deeper and we both know that.” The way Hamm sees it, marriage serves valid social purposes that have nothing to do with love or partnership, but instead, with practical matters of life. “To me, people [should] get married when they’re ready to have kids, which I’m not ruling out,” he added. But that never happened and Hamm has remained childless — and unwed.
Besides his views on the bureaucracy of marriage, Hamm also didn’t want to risk what he had with Westfeldt. “Jen is a wonderful observer of the human condition and we watched a lot of our friends go through what the people in the movie go through,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald in 2012. If it ain’t broke, right? Hollywood wasn’t the only place he saw marriages fall apart nearly as fast as the whirlwind romances that normally preceded them.
His small-town upbringing had plenty of that, too. For starters, his own mother and father divorced when he was only 2 years old, The Guardian noted. Hamm knew signing some papers was no guarantee of an enduring relationship. “We’ve already been together four times longer than my parents were married,” he told Parade.
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