Photo: The Drew Barrymore Show/YouTubeDrew Barrymorehad a blind date experience that taught her a lot about herself.On a recent episode ofThe Drew Barrymore Show, the actress explained that she wasset up with four eligible bachelorsearlier this week onThe Howard Stern Show, ultimately picking one as her best match.Reconnecting with the man, Clarke Thorell, Barrymore, 47, opened up about having “revelations” as a result of the dating experience.“None of the gentlemen, including yourself, have kids,” she said. “I have only dated, in the last few years, men who don’t have children. I want it clean, I don’t want to engage. I don’t think anyone’s meeting my kids, I don’t know if this is going anywhere. I realized something yesterday, Clarke, which is I might live on planet parent.“Explaining that those who do and don’t have kids live on “different planets,” she noted that “I feel like I’ve never gone on a date with anyone who actually understands the thing that’s the most all-consuming part of me.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Though Barrymore, whoshares two daughters, 8-year-oldFrankieand 10-year-oldOlive, with ex-husbandWill Kopelman, recently opened up about exploring dating apps during an episode of her daytime talk show last month, shealso dished that she can go “years” without sex.The topic came up while Barrymore andDrew Barrymore Showcontributor Ross Matthew discussedAndrew Garfieldbeing celibate for six monthsto prepare for his role in the 2016 filmSilence.“Well, I get abstaining from sex — I did that my entire 20s,” joked Mathews during the episode, according toEntertainment Tonight.Barrymore added, “I was like, ‘What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?’ I was like, ‘Yeah,so?’ “The Drew Barrymore Show/YouTubeIn ablog post after the episode, she wrote, “I’m sure that there was one point in my life where six months might have seemed extreme, but I’m on the other side of that now,” and went on to explain that she has “very different feelings about intimacy” as an adult now “than I did growing up.“Barrymore went on to say she “searched [her] whole life” to understand the difference between sex and love, and had a revelation about it with her therapist, who told her, “Sex is not love! It is the expression of love.“For Barrymore, “a relationship with a man has not been top of mind for me for a very long time,” she wrote. Instead, she explained, she “needed to stay very celibate and honoring and in some sort of state of [mourning] of the loss of a nuclear family that I swore I would have for my daughters and to find grace and acceptance and what ournew normal of a blended familywould be.”
Photo: The Drew Barrymore Show/YouTube
Drew Barrymorehad a blind date experience that taught her a lot about herself.On a recent episode ofThe Drew Barrymore Show, the actress explained that she wasset up with four eligible bachelorsearlier this week onThe Howard Stern Show, ultimately picking one as her best match.Reconnecting with the man, Clarke Thorell, Barrymore, 47, opened up about having “revelations” as a result of the dating experience.“None of the gentlemen, including yourself, have kids,” she said. “I have only dated, in the last few years, men who don’t have children. I want it clean, I don’t want to engage. I don’t think anyone’s meeting my kids, I don’t know if this is going anywhere. I realized something yesterday, Clarke, which is I might live on planet parent.“Explaining that those who do and don’t have kids live on “different planets,” she noted that “I feel like I’ve never gone on a date with anyone who actually understands the thing that’s the most all-consuming part of me.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Though Barrymore, whoshares two daughters, 8-year-oldFrankieand 10-year-oldOlive, with ex-husbandWill Kopelman, recently opened up about exploring dating apps during an episode of her daytime talk show last month, shealso dished that she can go “years” without sex.The topic came up while Barrymore andDrew Barrymore Showcontributor Ross Matthew discussedAndrew Garfieldbeing celibate for six monthsto prepare for his role in the 2016 filmSilence.“Well, I get abstaining from sex — I did that my entire 20s,” joked Mathews during the episode, according toEntertainment Tonight.Barrymore added, “I was like, ‘What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?’ I was like, ‘Yeah,so?’ “The Drew Barrymore Show/YouTubeIn ablog post after the episode, she wrote, “I’m sure that there was one point in my life where six months might have seemed extreme, but I’m on the other side of that now,” and went on to explain that she has “very different feelings about intimacy” as an adult now “than I did growing up.“Barrymore went on to say she “searched [her] whole life” to understand the difference between sex and love, and had a revelation about it with her therapist, who told her, “Sex is not love! It is the expression of love.“For Barrymore, “a relationship with a man has not been top of mind for me for a very long time,” she wrote. Instead, she explained, she “needed to stay very celibate and honoring and in some sort of state of [mourning] of the loss of a nuclear family that I swore I would have for my daughters and to find grace and acceptance and what ournew normal of a blended familywould be.”
Drew Barrymorehad a blind date experience that taught her a lot about herself.
On a recent episode ofThe Drew Barrymore Show, the actress explained that she wasset up with four eligible bachelorsearlier this week onThe Howard Stern Show, ultimately picking one as her best match.
Reconnecting with the man, Clarke Thorell, Barrymore, 47, opened up about having “revelations” as a result of the dating experience.
“None of the gentlemen, including yourself, have kids,” she said. “I have only dated, in the last few years, men who don’t have children. I want it clean, I don’t want to engage. I don’t think anyone’s meeting my kids, I don’t know if this is going anywhere. I realized something yesterday, Clarke, which is I might live on planet parent.”
Explaining that those who do and don’t have kids live on “different planets,” she noted that “I feel like I’ve never gone on a date with anyone who actually understands the thing that’s the most all-consuming part of me.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Though Barrymore, whoshares two daughters, 8-year-oldFrankieand 10-year-oldOlive, with ex-husbandWill Kopelman, recently opened up about exploring dating apps during an episode of her daytime talk show last month, shealso dished that she can go “years” without sex.
The topic came up while Barrymore andDrew Barrymore Showcontributor Ross Matthew discussedAndrew Garfieldbeing celibate for six monthsto prepare for his role in the 2016 filmSilence.
“Well, I get abstaining from sex — I did that my entire 20s,” joked Mathews during the episode, according toEntertainment Tonight.
Barrymore added, “I was like, ‘What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?’ I was like, ‘Yeah,so?’ "
The Drew Barrymore Show/YouTube
In ablog post after the episode, she wrote, “I’m sure that there was one point in my life where six months might have seemed extreme, but I’m on the other side of that now,” and went on to explain that she has “very different feelings about intimacy” as an adult now “than I did growing up.”
Barrymore went on to say she “searched [her] whole life” to understand the difference between sex and love, and had a revelation about it with her therapist, who told her, “Sex is not love! It is the expression of love.”
For Barrymore, “a relationship with a man has not been top of mind for me for a very long time,” she wrote. Instead, she explained, she “needed to stay very celibate and honoring and in some sort of state of [mourning] of the loss of a nuclear family that I swore I would have for my daughters and to find grace and acceptance and what ournew normal of a blended familywould be.”
source: people.com
