Kate Hudson thinks it has become "so easy" for people to walk away from relationships, rather than to "fight" and make an effort to resolve problems.
The Song Sung Blue actress - who has Ryder, 21, with ex-husband Chris Robinson, Bingham, 14, with former fiance Matt Bellamy and seven-year-old Rani with partner Danny Fujikawa - thinks it is "wonderful" that people no longer feel they have to stay in difficult personal situations but is also concerned that couples are more willing to walk away than to take the harder option of working through their issues to forge a stronger bond.
Speaking on the On Film... With Kevin McCarthy podcast, she said: “One of the things I think about in movies is it’s so easy for us today to leave.
“To neglect what it is to fight for something, to believe in something, to believe in your family, to believe in your partnership, to work hard for something.
“We live in a time — it’s wonderful — people don’t have to stay in complicated relationships, but it’s a lot easier to leave than it is to stay nowadays.
“I think the thing that hits people more than they want to maybe admit, is that relationships and life is hard.
“But when you have the grit and the resilience to stick with it or to stick with someone or to work through something, the other side of that is really powerful, strong and beautiful, and it gives everybody else a sense of like safety and love.”
The 46-year-old actress described the feeling as a "big blanket" and expressed her belief that the rise in popularity of self-help books and podcasts show how people are struggling with the notion of "What is it to live a healthy, long, beautiful life".
Discussing an emotional scene in her new movie Song Sung Blue - in which she stars opposite Hugh Jackman - she said: “There’s something about movies when they hit you in a certain way.
“Like that scene, when you see it, you’re like, ‘Oh, when you earn that comfort because you stand by somebody, or you get through the hard stuff, or you are so in it with that person that, like, you don’t know if you’re going to get at it, but you’ll never ever let… you’ll never give up on that person.
“In a moment like that, you’re like, ‘Oh… that’s why we work so hard for love,’ but we need to work at it.”
And Kate believes films such as Song Sung Blue can be "really inspirational" when it comes to encouraging couples to tackle adversity together.
She added: “Life hits us really hard with all kinds of things, and some people a lot harder than others.
“And so, when you see movies that kind of are more affirming… they can be really inspirational, that people can get through it with each other if they just stick with it. Love that about this movie.”
