Sarah Paulson has no plans to marry Holland Taylor, and she is completely at peace with that. On the Nov. 12 episode of Chelsea Handler’s Dear Chelsea podcast, the All’s Fair actress put it plainly: “I’m happy that I haven’t been married.” E! Online reported the conversation, which covered marriage, independence and why she never wanted kids.
Sarah Paulson on Marriage and Independence
Paulson, 51, framed the decision as a way of keeping hold of herself. “I feel that I’ve maintained some sense of myself in a way,” she told Handler, according to E! Online.
Her issue is permanence. She said she has never needed the relationship to be something written in stone. Then came the line that will follow her around for a while: “The stoneness of it gives me the heebie-jeebies.”
She was careful to spell out what that freedom does not mean. Paulson said it has nothing to do with wanting distance from Taylor or wanting someone else. She described it as protecting her own independence.
No ring. No plan for one.
Does a marriage license matter for a couple who are truly committed?
A Bond Without Formal Ties
Paulson didn’t let the no-wedding answer sit on its own. “The bond, the connectivity I have with Holland, I feel married to her,” she said. She added that she feels as connected to Taylor as she possibly could to another person, and that the two have NEVER felt the need to make it official.
Married in every way except on paper. Plenty of long relationships run on exactly that arrangement. The pressure to formalise usually arrives from outside: relatives asking, friends’ weddings, the assumption that a decade together has to end at an altar. Paulson’s account turns on the word “we.” She describes two people who both looked at marriage and passed. One partner wanting a wedding while the other dreads the stoneness of it would be a far harder story. By her telling, it is not theirs.
Paulson Reflects on Not Having Children
Kids are another matter Sarah Paulson and Taylor see the same way. “I like my life. I’m happy that I haven’t had children,” Paulson said. Her reasoning was unusually candid. She told Handler she doesn’t have the constitution to raise a person and then calmly wave them off for the day, and pictured herself following them around instead.
“My heart is too fragile,” she explained.
Same instinct as the marriage answer. Paulson knows what she can carry, says so without apology, and has arranged her life around it.
Paulson and Taylor Since 2015
Paulson and the Two and a Half Men alum started dating in 2015 after reconnecting, per E! Online. Before Taylor, Paulson dated Cherry Jones from 2004 to 2009.
More than ten years in, Sarah Paulson has answered the question every long-term couple eventually gets asked. No wedding planned, no children, and in her own words, she already feels married.
Sources: E! Online
