HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Susan Sarandon says there was plenty of shock to go around when she split with Tim Robbins last December after 23 years together.
"People were coming up to me in the street and saying, 'I cried and cried when I heard,' " the Oscar-winning actress tells Britain's Telegraph. "Well, I was sadder! I didn't think it would ever happen, either."
Sarandon says the love affair, which began on the set of the 1988 baseball film Bull Durham, had simply runs its course.
"You bring people into your life at certain times," explains Sarandon, who is currently starring in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. "Maybe you have a relationship to have children, and you realize that it's fulfilled after that point."
Sarandon, 63, and Robbins, 51, went on to have two sons together – Jack, 21, and Miles, 18 – but they never considered marriage.
"I've always liked the idea of choosing to be with somebody," explains Sarandon, who also has a 25-year-old daughter, Eva, from a previous relationship with Italian director Franco Amurri. "I thought that if you didn't get married, you wouldn't take each other for granted as easily. I don't know if after twentysomething years that was still true."
These days, Sarandon is linked to the much younger Jonathan Bricklin, her 31-year-old business partner in SPiN, a New York table-tennis social club.
"You have to have a sense of humor," she says of the dating rumors surrounding the twosome. "There are lots of people in my life at the moment."
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