Jericho, wife: Separation can be peaceful, exes can be friends

IT is possible. 

Officially, celebrity couple Jericho Rosales and Kim Jones are no longer together but they are a testament that endings, no matter how painful, can still be beautiful. 

According to a GMA News Online report, it was Kim herself who confirmed the split to their source but said she and her now ex-husband have remained friends after their separation. 

Meanwhile, Ricci Ocampo who was the couple’s godfather in their wedding, said the now-former couple have been separated since 2019. 

In a statement sent to ABS-CBN, Ocampo said the two are indeed living separate lives but they still wish well for each other and in fact, consider each other as best friends.

“While the friendship between the two remains, they have decided it is time to lead separate lives. They are encouraging each other to grow, albeit in different directions. It was a mutual decision, an amicable separation, dealt with grace and maturity by both parties,” Ocampo, who has long been a friend of the couple since their dating days, said to ABS-CBN. 

“This split is not borne out of ill feelings. On the contrary, one might say that it is a demonstration of their affection and respect, as Echo and Kim only wish the best for each other,” Ocampo said.

Friendship after relationship  

If it’s true that the two had been separated since 2019, there were quite a lot of instances, months and years after, showing their beautiful friendship even after their relationship. 

Social media receipts speak for it. 

Unlike usual celebrity break-ups, Kim and Jericho never talked ill of each other and protected one another just as much as they did before. 

Now, their story is inspiring so many netizens to look into their hearts and give love even after the love story has ended. 

Let’s look down on some of their happy times together as exes. 

Who else gets to walk up to nature and breathe in peace after breaking off from a nearly ten-year marriage? Take your cue from Kim and Jericho who, in 2021, still managed to appreciate nature’s beauty together. 

Looking through the wilderness, Jericho said, the way “to live in appreciation is to embrace care and responsibility.” 

Who else still considers being promoted to “official plus one” after calling it quits? Jericho does.

Separation, most of the time, makes us see bad in the other. Sometimes, we lose love, respect, and high regard for the person because we parted ways. 

But not Jericho.

He continued to look up to his ex-wife with awe and helping her out in her engagements no less, makes him a “proud assistant.” 

Can you do the same for your ex?

Even in the year of their split in 2019, Jericho never lost appreciation for Kim’s beauty who, for him, remains to be the “most important” person in his life and “co-owner” of his heart. 

The two even attended the ABS-CBN Ball together last year. 

Rumors about their split have long made waves online but the two have always remained quiet. However, it was when talent manager-turned-vlogger Ogie Diaz shared a blind item about a famous couple who have long been separated and are processing their annulment exploded that brought the issue back. 

Netizens were quick to connect that the clues might be pointing at Kim and Jericho. Earlier this year, the two even exchanged comments on Instagram amid persistent break-up issues. 

Kim and Jericho got engaged in August 2013 and exchanged vows at a resort in Boracay in May 2014.

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