Jennifer Aniston and her boyfriend Jim Curtis have built what he describes as a calm and deliberate approach to handling disagreements, choosing communication over conflict when tensions arise.
Talking about Ced with Intent podcast in an episode released on February 12, Curtis shared that spending a lot of time together naturally comes with occasional friction, but how they react makes the difference.
“I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend,” he said. “We spend a lot of time in the house together. Sometimes we can have little things that flare up.”
Instead of letting these moments turn into lasting anger, Curtis explained, they try to solve problems head-on and thoughtfully.
“We have the option to either shut up and be angry; or walk out of the house, or think about it and meditate on how we can change it, or we can say, ‘Hey, this is what happened, sorry’ and make the repair,” he said.
He added that solving a problem once is not enough if the same problem keeps coming back.
“Because once you make a repair and then it just happens five more times, nobody trusts it,” Curtis explained, stressing the importance of real change rather than empty excuses.
Curtis also talked about setting expectations early in a relationship, saying couples benefit from what he called “playing the rules,” especially around communication styles.
He noted that without conscious effort, unresolved personal issues can easily spill over into a relationship.
“We’re all so confused that unless we start being really consciously proactive about it, we’re just going to have all our inner stuff up everywhere and not know how to experience it together,” he said.
The pair were first linked in July 2025 and publicly confirmed their relationship later that year.
Curtis has previously shared Show today that their romance began quietly through mutual friends.
“We were just introduced by friends,” he said.
“That was it. We found out we had mutual friends and we just started chatting.” He added that their connection grew slowly over time, saying, “It took a long time.”
