but two years after splitting the oscar winner 43 told live it took me a year to get it he suffered a year of depression after gwyneth paltrow split paltrow recently told glamour magazine that she considers martin like a brother gwyneth paltrow on ex chris martin hes like my brother chris martin reveals well have a weekend all together holidays were together promoting his album but we are still a family chris and i are not a couple so were not living together but hes more than welcome to be with us whenever he wants paltrow told the magazine in february a year of depression and all that and vice versa i sleep in his house in malibu a lot with the kids since announcing their split in march 2014 the family of four has spent holidays and vacations together that one rumi poem changes everything martin told the uks the sunday times last month last night he got in at midnight and slept here so he could surprise the kids in the morning were still very much a family even though we dont have a romantic relationship 151 gwyneth paltrow was widely mocked when she announced that she and exhusband chris martin were consciously uncoupling hes like my brother it says that even when youre unhappy its good for you with kelly and michael that her decision to consciously uncouple from the coldplay frontman has paid off for their family especially children apple 11 and moses who just turned 10 i think its hard in divorce theres always pain and hurt and a sense of loss and grief and its hard to really let go and put that aside and still maintain a family which is what were trying to do for the sake of the children genuinely so we can all be together and go through life together paltrow said martin credited a poem titled the guest house by persian poet rumi with giving him a new perspective on his situation as for martin 39 he recently revealed that even though the split was amicable he still struggled with the separation hes been away for two weeks