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Shemar Moore is the latest famous man to consider marriage a bigger commitment than children.
The film and TV actor opened up about his future plans with girlfriend Jesiree Dizon to PEOPLE, and though the pair share their 1-year-old daughter, the buck will probably stop there.
“I didn’t have a good role model of marriage in my life. Not my mother, not my father. Nobody close to me,” he said. “I struggle with ‘Who made that rule?’ I asked my mother one time. I’m like, ‘If people get married, then what’s this prenup thing? Oh, I love you. You’re the most amazing person in the world but sign this. So you don’t trust the person?’”
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He continued,
“To me, it’s just like tomorrow’s not guaranteed, but Jesiree, I’ll give you everything I got today and tomorrow. She is my partner. She is the mother of Frankie. Frankie has a dope-a** mama, and I’m going to try to be a dope-ass daddy. And we going to do that until God calls my name.”
Moore has also taken on the massive responsibility of helping to raise Dizon’s other two children from previous relationships, who he says he simply wants to give the best life.
“Keep them all safe. Kaiden, Charli, Frankie, Desiree,” he said. “Kaiden has his daddy. I respect him. Charli has her daddy. I respect him. I don’t step on those toes, but I keep them safe. I mentor them as I can. I try my hardest to make them believe in themselves and watch them fly.”
The 54-year-old S.W.A.T star’s logic seems to mean that one can only excel at something they’ve seen their parents do specifically. Oh, and that no prenup also means no marriage. Noted.
Though Moore seems sure of his decision to bypass marriage, he does have one regret.
“My mother’s dream, and I still feel guilty about it, was to be a grandma,” he said.
The former silver screen heartthrob lost his mother, Marilyn Joan Wilson-Moore, in 2020 after a battle with multiple sclerosis. Moore added that he feels his choice to focus on “chasing girls and living my life and kicking it with my homies” is one that was selfish in hindsight.