On Monday, mere weeks after appearing at the Toronto Film Festival together, actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have confirmed that they are separating after 11 years together.

“Over the past few months we’ve come to the conclusion that the best way forward for us as a family is to separate as a couple,” the actors told People in a joint statement. Watts and Schreiber, who are parents to sons Alexander Sasha, 8, and Samuel Kai, 7, continue, “It is with great love, respect, and friendship in our hearts that we look forward to raising our children together and exploring this new phase of our relationship. While we appreciate your curiosity and support, we ask the press to be mindful of our children and respect their right to privacy.”

While in Toronto, the two premiered their sports drama The Bleeder—the latest in a series of onscreen collaborations including 2006’s The Painted Veil and 2013’s Movie 43.

Over the years, Watts has spoken openly about their relationship, their decision not to marry, and their first meeting—at the 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual costume gala.

“We were both single and we were both very aware of each other in the room,” Watts told Marie Claire in 2010. “I don't know about love at first sight, but there was a strong desire for one another.”

After exchanging numbers, Watts said, “We spoke on the phone for several weeks and emailed . . . And then I made up some excuse to come to New York and the rest is history.”

When we spoke to Schreiber in 2015, the Ray Donovan actor reminisced about his first date with Watts—whom he calls “Nai”—outside Magnolia Bakery in the West Village, where the two chitchatted over cupcakes on a park bench. “It was all very aboveboard,” Schreiber told us.

The actor also discussed his sons, revealing how shocked he was to have sired “such beautiful children. But then, of course, they look like their mother,” he says, referring to his Oscar-nominated partner.

Despite being together for over a decade, Watts has said that the two never felt any urgency to marry.

“We’re very much together,” Watts told Easy Living Magazine in 2012. “We just don’t have that certificate, and that’s okay with both of us. Maybe one day, we’ll just wake up and go, ‘Hey, let’s do this.’ And maybe not.”