Chris Pratt and Anna Faris’ Most Inspiring Quotes About Coparenting Their Son Jack

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Chris Pratt and Anna Faris' Most Inspiring Quotes About Coparenting Their Son Jack

So much love! Chris Pratt and Anna Faris may be divorced, but they’re doing their best to show the world that having a happy, healthy relationship following a split is possible. [ami-related id="798" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/anna-faris-and-chris-pratts-sweetest-pda-moments-20142411/" title="Anna Faris and Chris Pratt: The Way They Were" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/1416846802_chris-anna-zero-dark-thirty-zoom-b4bb32fc-37d1-4b1e-b0fd-1f480da5e0f3.jpg"] The Mom actress and Passengers actor have remained close for the sake of their son, Jack, and will continue to share a bond even though they’ve moved on romantically. Pratt got engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger in January 2019 and Faris is in a long-term relationship with cinematographer Michael Barrett. Keep scrolling to read all of the former couple’s best quotes about coparenting!

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Sad News

When Faris and Pratt announced their separation in August 2017, they admitted that their focus was their son’s happiness. “We tried really hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed,” they said in a joint statement at the time of their then-4-year-old. “Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep the situation as private as possible moving forward. We still love each other and will always cherish our time together.”

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Only Good Things to Say

Two months after announcing the split, Faris released her book, Unqualified, which featured a foreword written by Pratt. The Guardians of the Galaxy actor had nothing but amazing things to say about his ex and told readers that the memoir is a “face-first dive into the mind and person that I spent one amazing decade with, and will, for the rest of my life, amicably coparent a human.”

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All for Their Son

How do the actors stay so positive despite their split? They think about Jack constantly. “I think it’s just the general idea of just making sure that he’s surrounded by a lot of love and happiness,” Faris told Us in January 2018. “We’re really good at that and we have amazing friends and incredible family and we have, like, just the most amazing resources to make sure that he feels safe and protected and happy. And so far, he is.”

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A Tough Situation

The Everwood alum got candid about going through a divorce in an April 2018 interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Divorce sucks,” he said bluntly. “But at the end of the day, we’ve got a great kid who’s got two parents who love him very much. And we’re finding a way to navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one another.”

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The Key to Success

The secret to being successful coparents is, according to Faris, communication. "What Chris and I try to do is to communicate openly," she told Women's Health in May 2018. "We reiterate that there aren’t rules to this. We have a lot of love and friendship, and our big goal is to protect Jack. I cherish my family, my close friends, my child — that makes the rest of it worth it.”

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Putting in Effort

While the House Bunny actress and Jurassic World actor make coparenting look easy, Faris admitted in January 2019 that it’s a constant effort. She explained on her “Unqualified” podcast, “Chris and I work really hard ‘cause we have Jack ... that is sort of the long game idea. Making sure Jack is really happy ... makes us really happy.”

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Love on the Brain

Faris was thrilled when Pratt texted her after he proposed to Schwarzenegger in January 2019. In fact, she said on her podcast that the only uncomfortable thing was that people expected her to be upset by the engagement news when she was actually very excited. “I so subscribe to the idea of, like, expanding, like, family and love with Jack,” the Overboard actress explained. “[Katherine’s] awesome.”