These two seemed like a happy, low-key couple! However, Michelle Williams told Vogue that the pair had split, blaming their problems on life circumstances. Spike Jonze was the first man Michelle dated after ex-boyfriend Heath Ledger's death.

"The timing was impossible," she admits. "I thought falling in love again was the only thing that was going to save me from the pain. This erroneous idea: It just makes things more complicated."

"I was holding it together by a string and a paper clip in the fall and winter," she tells Vogue. "I didn't know if I could keep it all together … You console yourself by saying it's all a deepening process. But it's weird. After the first year, the pain is less intense -- it's less immediate. But the magical thinking goes away too. And that's a whole new reckoning."

Williams says dating as a single mother played a part in the breakup.

"I obviously don't know how to do it," says Williams.

Michelle and Spike met while working together on the film 'Synecdoche, New York' in the summer 2007. Michelle and Heath split in September 2007, and she and Spike began dating in July 2008, six months after Heath's death.

Their difficulties are completely understandable, and everyone's grieving process is different, but it sounds like Michelle is getting back on her feet after a rough year or so.

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