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Aniston spoke about ex Daniel McDonald, who sadly passed away in 2007, in a 2015 interview with The New York Times, noting that he could have been “The One” if she was older and wiser. “He was my first love — five years we were together. He would have been the one,” the Emmy winner said at the time. “But I was 25, and I was stupid. He must have sent me Justin to make up for it all.”

“Marriage makes the small things much smaller and the big things small,” the Just Go With It star told Rhapsody magazine in July 2017. “You have an ally. It’s good to have someone have your back.”

Although they spent much of their time in the Hollywood spotlight, Aniston and Pitt did average couple things like everyone else. “It’s like the ebb and flow of every relationship,” she told Vanity Fair in 2005. “It’s hard; it gets easy; it gets fun again. What’s hard to sustain is some ideal that it’s perfect. That’s ridiculous. What’s fantastic about marriage is getting through those ebbs and flows with the same person, and looking across the room and saying, ‘I’m still here. And I still love you.’ You re-meet, reconnect. You have marriages within marriages within marriages. That’s what I love about marriage. That’s what I want in marriage.”

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Aniston also detailed her divorce in the VF interview.

“There are many stages of grief,” she told the magazine. “It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I’m a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren’t in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.”

Although her two marriages to Pitt and Theroux came to an end, the actress considers them both a success. “My marriages, they’ve been very successful, in [my] personal opinion,” the We’re the Millers actress reminisced to Elle in 2018. “And when they came to an end, it was a choice that was made because we chose to be happy, and sometimes happiness didn’t exist within that arrangement anymore.”

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The Dumplin’ star has gained some wisdom from multiple heartbreaks, which has been helpful moving forward. “Having experienced everything you don’t want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want,” she said during an interview with InStyle. “As I get older, I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won’t settle for.”

The Echo Films cofounder learned a lot from her divorce from Pitt and takes some responsibility for her part in the couple’s romantic demise. “I wouldn’t give over so much of myself, which I did at times,” she told Vanity Fair. “I love taking care of people, and I definitely put his needs before mine sometimes … somewhere along the way, you sort of lose yourself.”

There is love and then there is forever love. The Good Girl actress confessed to Vanity Fair that she will always love the Ocean’s Twelve star. “I still feel so lucky to have experienced it. I wouldn’t know what I know now if I hadn’t been married to Brad. I love Brad; I really love him. I will love him for the rest of my life,” Aniston shared at the time. “He’s a fantastic man. I don’t regret any of it, and I’m not going to beat myself up about it. We spent seven very intense years together; we taught each other a lot — about healing and about fun. We helped each other through a lot, and I really value that. It was a beautiful, complicated relationship.”

Aniston acknowledges she has learned over the years what she is looking for in a future relationship. “The ease at which the conversation flows the first time, that’s kind of a good indicator. Confidence, but not a cockiness. Humor, please, I beg of you,” she said on Radio Andy. “Generous, kind to people. You know … very few necessities required.”