REESE WITHERSPOON NOT READY TO MARRY AGAIN

    Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon says she is not ready to get married again, a year after her divorce from Ryan Phillippe.
    Witherspoon, 32, has been dating Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal since they starred in Rendition last year, and have been spotted together with her children in London and Paris.
    But the Walk the Line and Legally Blonde star said: “Family is all we have in life, but I don’t know how I feel about marriage.
    “Obviously I’m not far enough out of being married to think about doing it again. You sort of reconstitute you family. You find a family with people who come into your life for a reason.”
    She said she and Flags Of Our Fathers star Phillippe, 34, are both hands-on parents to Ava, nine, and Deacon, five.
    “My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children,” she told Parade magazine. “We’re very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America.
    “We’re on the same page that way.
    “I’m teaching the children what we were taught growing up – a real set of rules, discipline and love. Children thrive with a sense of structure and they’re frightened without it.”
    Witherspoon, whose new film Four Christmases, a comedy co-starring Vince Vaughn, opens on Wednesday, said she thinks she was naive to believe her marriage would last forever.
    “I wasn’t good about protecting myself,” she went on. “I spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying o figure out if doing that made me happy.
    “I struggle to figure out what made me make those choices. All I can hope for is that I’ve learned something from it and won’t make the same choices again.”
    But she is optimistic about the future, even though she is still dealing with the aftermath of her divorce.
    “There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce,” she went on. “Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen.
    “I definitely still have a capacity to love. Someone said to me once, ‘No matter what breakup you went through or what new love you find – the love you remember, the love you now value, is yours.
    “‘Whatever love you once gave to somebody else, it doesn’t go away. Even if it is only remembered love, it belongs to you.’”
    And she added: “Do I need men? I don’t think it’s about needing men. It’s about love.
    “Things change but your ability to love remains intact. Oh, I have a lot of hope for love! I do!”