![]() "You've got to communicate, and stay open and not get lazy. So, how does the couple keep their marriage strong today? "You've got to keep at it," he tells People. "I was coming out of a show that had been my identity for so many years, and Jill and I were transitioning. "Our union has to be the priority." During their brief break, "I spent a lot of time alone," he admits. In addition to leaving Grey's Anatomy, he also began to pull back from one of his favorite pastimes: car racing. You can only do one thing at a time and do it well," he says, noting that he had to "slow down a bit in order to get focused and find out what it is that I want." I wanted to get to that deeper level, and not just skirt the surface. But I became frustrated with the lack of quality of experience in my life. "I always struggled with the question of sacrifice. The actor also realized he needed to make certain sacrifices. "We want to be role models for our children-if you have differences, you can work them out." Jill and I decided it was time to work on our issues and improve." Today, their marriage is "much healthier" than it ever was, "because we're a lot more conscious of our individual needs," he explains. Through therapy, Patrick realized, "Everybody has their own path. "I wasn't prepared to give up on her and she wasn't either. "We decided it was time to get in there and work on our individual issues and our issues as a couple," he says. They began couples counseling after the divorce filing, which Patrick says was "very important" to giving them a "new beginning." Patrick and Jillian, both 50, are parents to daughter Tallula Dempsey, 14, and twin sons Darby Dempsey, 9, and Sullivan Dempsey, 9. "It's always destabilizing when you're potentially breaking up a family or you have a big section of your life that's ending." Knowing his marriage could end was a "scary" feeling, he admits. "I didn't feel like we had done all the work. "Our marriage was not something I was prepared to let go of," he says People's Sept 19 issue, on newsstands Friday. 16), the actor admits he never gave up hope that he and Jillian would reconnect. Darby Galen and Sullivan Patrick are the family’s two youngest members. ![]() Patrick and Jillian welcomed the twins into their family as their second. As he filmed Bridget Jones's Baby with Colin Firth and Renée Zellweger in London (in theaters Sept. Patrick Dempsey’s twin children with wife Jillian Fink, Sullivan Patrick Dempsey and Darby Galen Dempsey, were born on February 1, 2007. So, he left ABC's Grey's Anatomy in April to focus on his film career-and, more importantly, keeping his family together. So, when his wife Jillian Dempsey filed for divorce after 15 years of marriage in January 2015, his world turned upside down. Patrick Dempsey's marriage is sacrosanct. ![]()
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