Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed that it is ‘difficult’ to sustain her sex life with her husband Will after decades of marriage.

On this week’s Red Table Talk with Gwyneth Paltrow, Pinkett Smith provides another good dose of genuine honesty regarding her relationship with Will Smith. This time, she’s delving into the challenges of keeping the motor operating after many years.

“It’s hard,” Jada said. “The thing Will and I talk about a lot is the journey. We started in this at a very young age, you know, 22 years old. That’s why the accountability part really hit for me because I think you expect your partner to know [what you need], especially when it comes to sex. It’s like, ‘Well, if you love me, you should know. If you love me, you should read my mind.’ That’s a huge pitfall.”

They married in 1997 and have two children (Jaden and Willow). Both Smith and Pinkett Smith have been open about how their relationship has grown and why they no longer refer to each other as married, as Insider’s Olivia Singh previously reported.

The actress, 50, admitted that she may feel ‘uncomfortable’ making the effort to be close with her husband, 53, and that she’really tries’ to keep in touch with him.

Pinkett-Smith went on to say that both partners must be upfront and honest about their wishes and needs, which is not always easy to do.

“You tell me what you require.” Tell me what you want, and I know I have to be accountable to do the same… “I make every effort,” she added. “It’s uncomfortable, but it’s deeply healthy, and I think it’s especially important around sex because it’s something we don’t talk about and there’s so much fantasy around it.”

Paltrow, who is now promoting her Netflix show Sex, Love & Goop, said, “Isn’t it weird, though? It’s like someone doesn’t read your mind and we feel crushed.”

“Crushed!” Jada agreed.

Smith revealed to GQ last month that the couple were not monogamous, claiming that his wife “never believed in conventional marriage.”

‘Jada never believed in conventional marriage… Jada had family members that had an unconventional relationship,’ the Men in Black star explained.

He expressed his gratitude for the open dialogue he and Jada had maintained throughout the years.

“We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way,” Smith revealed in the article. “And marriage, for us, can’t be a prison.”

“I don’t suggest this road for anybody,” he added. “But the experiences that the freedoms that we’ve given one another and the unconditional support, to me, is the highest definition of love.”

In July 2020, while appearing on Red Table Talk with Will, Jada disclosed that she and her husband had temporarily split years before and admitted to the actor that she had an affair with R&B artist August Alsina, who had talked publicly about it.

Will and Jada openly addressed the actress’ ‘entanglement’ with the singer, who was 27 at the time, last year, but the Aladdin star confessed that his wife wasn’t the only one having extramarital affairs.

However, he declined to go into depth, owing to a shift in his mentality in recent years.

‘It may seem hard to believe, but I would lose sleep over not giving you the answer that I know you could use,’ he explained.

‘I want to help you, I want you to succeed, I want you to have a headline.

‘But by the same token, I don’t want to deal with the backlash of that in the world. To say I don’t want to talk about that three years ago would have been f****** excruciating for me.’