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Teri Hatcher Says She’s ‘Too Stuck in My Ways to Fall in Love’ Again
Teri Hatcher stars in the new Lifetime holiday movie How to Fall in Love by Christmas, but how does she feel about falling in love herself? The actress, who celebrated her 60th birthday on December 8, opened up to Swooon about her feelings on romance these days.
“I think it’s maybe easier to fall in love when you’re younger,” she admitted. “For me, at my age, I just feel like you get everything the way you like it. You start to understand yourself and how you want to spend your time and who you want to be with and what you enjoy and what you personally need to be your best self and all of that.”
The Desperate Housewives alum continued, “By the time you get to be my age, I spent a lot of my life taking care of people: taking care of my daughter, took care of people at jobs, and now actually, ironically, I take care of my parents, so I’m not entirely done with that. But I just feel like when I imagine someone else my age with all of the same feelings I have about my little system, it seems maybe harder to imagine that merging.”
She discussed how watching her daughter, Emerson Tenney, evolve in her 20s has made her realize there’s “much more malleability of how you can decide to have habits and behavior and you can kind of grow that together. This is a really long answer saying I’m too stuck in my ways to fall in love.”
Hatcher’s life is full of love, even though she’s currently single — and she’s okay with that.
“I think another thing is people confuse falling in love with a partnership,” she explained. “I have plenty of love in my life. I love my daughter. I love my friends. I love my cat. I understand that endorphin of love, and what it’s like to share that with someone, the giving and receiving of it, there’s nothing like it. There’s nothing like feeling loved by people in your life and loving the people in your life, and I have that in full even though I don’t have a partner.”
