Sophia Bush Reveals How She Finally Saw Grant Hughes as a Romantic Interest After 10 Years of Friendship

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Changing her perspective. Sophia Bush opened up about how she was about to finally consider Grant Hughes as more than a friend after a decade, leading to their eventual engagement.On the Monday, June 13, episode of the “Drama Queens” podcast, the Good Sam actress, 39, spoke about how her cohosts and One Tree Hill alums Hilarie Burton and Joy Lenz have helped change her outlook on life and love.“Joy and I, we process a little more slowly,” Bush noted, referencing Burton’s 12-year relationship with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, with whom the Virginia native, 39, shares two children.The California native got emotional as she told her pals, who she met over 20 years ago on OTH, that they really helped her identify how she was choosing the wrong romantic relationships. “Something I will always cherish in both my friendships with you is that we’ve held mirrors up to each other for a very long time,” she said. “Both of you have said versions to me of what you just said, Hilarie, which is it’s about discernment and sympathy.”Bush took a long time to realize that she was choosing partners that she thought she could help in some way.

Eventually, the “Work In Progress” podcast host realized that “to fix and help and save and mother and all the s–t — that’s not your responsibility as a partner.”She had another realization after taking a step back and asking herself why she was choosing relationships that never worked out. “Well, I’m a romantic, I’m a storyteller, I believe in people.

I’m an optimist, so I often fall in love with potential,” the human rights activist revealed. “It is not, as a partner, my job or your job to help another person realize their potential.