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Kate Hudson values respect in relationships

03 May 2011

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Kate Hudson thinks her relationships have grown more ''adult'' as she has got older and she now values ''respect'' over ''passionate, crazy love''.

Kate Hudson thinks "respect" is the key to a lasting relationship.

The 32-year-old actress - who has a seven-year-old son Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson and is currently pregnant with fiancé Matt Bellamy's baby - thinks her attitude to love has changed since she became a mother because her family will always come first.

Explaining how her relationship values change as she gets older, she said: "It just becomes more adult - that passionate, crazy love changes. The things you want in a partnership are different than when you were younger. Now it's about respect, honesty, full partnership and compromise - all the great stuff. I think respect is what makes love last.

Also, being a parent makes you grow up. When you see kids walking all over their parents, you realise they're just doing it because they know they can. Ryder would never do that, because he knows he can't. It's the same with friendships.

"I think, when you have kids, this shift happens where, all of a sudden, your life and your priority becomes your children, first and foremost. If you do enter a relationship, you have to balance out the relationship and all the other things in your life, but your real focus is your children. So, having kids obviously shifts the focus of what it is to love and be in a relationship."

Kate also thinks her insistence on honesty and no game-playing keeps her life stable as she will not put up with "petty" problems.

She explained in an interview with Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper: "I'm not threatened or jealous. From the beginning, I don't tolerate any of the petty stuff. I think anybody who knows me or is in a relationship with me knows that if they start doing that kind of thing, I'll say something.

"Also, being a parent makes you grow up. When you see kids walking all over their parents, you realise they're just doing it because they know they can. Ryder would never do that, because he knows he can't. It's the same with friendships."