Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry: Facts About Their Relationship

We still can’t believe Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry are officially over! The Talk cocreator and her longtime wife called it quits in December 2019, Closer Weekly confirmed at the time. The Roseanne alum filed paperwork for legal separation with minor children and cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason

Fans of the longtime lovebirds — who tied the knot in 2014 and share 4-year-old son Rhodes — were shocked by the news of their divorce considering the ex-couple was spotted out on a family lunch date with their blended brood barely a week before the Conners star filed.

Despite the end of their marriage, Sara and Linda, 54, are doing everything they can to make this as easy as possible for themselves and their family. A source close to the former couple told Closer Weekly how they’re managing to ‘be separated” while continuing to remain “on good terms.”

“They were married for five years and they share their son Rhodes. They don’t hate each other and are still communicating,” the insider exclusively shared in January 2019. “Sara’s two other kids, Levi and Sawyer are teenagers, but they like Linda and considered her their stepmom. All three kids get along and Sara and Linda are committed to making sure Rhodes, who’s five, stays close to his older siblings.”

“Unfortunately, the marriage didn’t work out, but they still have to coparent Rhodes and there are no plans to avoid each other,” the insider continued.

Although Sara and Linda are no longer together, we’re happy to see they’re doing whatever they can to remain amicable.

Scroll on down to see five facts about the former pair’s marriage before they split!

Linda Proposed in the Sweetest Way

During an episode of The Talk , Sara recalled how her love proposed to her. “She goes to her backpack and she pulls out these T-shirts and the first T-shirt says ‘will’ and then puts on another T-shirt and it says, ‘you,’ then ‘marry,’ ‘me,'” Sara recalled. “It was the most amazing proposal ever.” So cute!

They Had an Intimate Wedding

“We decided that we wanted to be together and enjoy people’s company, because I think people miss that part of their wedding,” Sara said on her CBS daytime talk show. “We wanted to bring everybody with us down the hill and have this communal feeling.”

“It feels more different than you expect,” Sara added of being married at the time. “You feel like you’re part of this institution and it’s official, and, oh, I better not mess this up. You feel safer in a way and you feel like you’ve really committed and it’s not about, can I deal with this or not deal with it. It becomes, how will we deal with our relationship together.”

They Welcomed a Child for an Incredible Reason

While Linda was there for Sara’s two children from a previous relationship, the pair decided to welcome their own child in 2015. “I knew when we got married that Linda needed a baby. That even though we were a family — the four of us — she needed to follow a little soul from day one,” Sara explained when she was honored at the Family Equality Council’s L.A. Impact Awards in 2016.

They Released a Children’s Album Together

The former couple released Deer Sounds in 2015. “Even on our first date, Linda was talking about [writing a children’s album]. So I always wanted that to happen,” Sara once explained to Entertainment Tonight. “These songs just started to show up when he was born and then it just got really exciting because we were all in the house and all a part of it, all throwing in ideas and making artwork … It was a very sweet experience.”