Tracee Ellis Ross is opening up about her preferences in the dating world.
The 52-year-old actress recently explained why she prefers to date younger men, and why she’s happy with the single life.
“A lot of men my age are steeped in a toxic masculinity and have been raised in a culture where there is a particular way that a relationship looks. Anything that starts to smell of that for me — I did enough of it where I was controlled and felt like I was a possession or a prize — I just have no interest in it. And I will not do it again. I have long been past the age where I feel like it’s my job to teach somebody or grow them up. That, I’m not interested in,”” she said while on Michelle Obama‘s IMO podcast.
While the Blackish star is not married and does not have children, she talked about how choosing not to settle has also fulfilled her life.
“As much grief does surface for me around not having children and not having a partner, I still wouldn’t want the wrong partner. I’m not interested in that. You have to make my life better. It can’t just be, ‘I’m in a relationship to be in a relationship.’ So even though the grief does emerge and that comes and I hold that, I think of what I’ve done,” she said.
She continued, “I wake up every morning trying to do my best. I didn’t wake up one morning and be like, ‘I’m going to mess this day up.’ So I must be where I’m supposed to be. Sometimes I think of all of the things I’ve done, the courage that I have had to have, and what I’ve had to learn how to navigate as a single person with no one to hide behind. And, I’ve built a really beautiful experience around me.”
If you didn’t know, Tracee has been open about her decision to be child-free.