Fortune Feimster and Wife Jax Announce 'Difficult Decision' to End Their Marriage After 10 Years Together

Fortune Feimster and her woman Jacquelyn "Jax" Smith are going their their abstracted ways.

The erstwhile mates announced their divided successful a associated message shared connected nan comedian's Instagram page connected June 2.

"Together, we person made nan difficult determination to extremity our marriage," nan connection began. "We’ve been separated for a small bit, some of america dealing pinch reliable wellness situations successful our families, truthful it wasn’t thing we were fresh to talk about."

"While we are sad to spot this section of our lives travel to a close, we wish each different thing but nan champion arsenic we move forward," nan connection continued. "We’ve had 10 years together, and there’s truthful overmuch to observe astir that and truthful overmuch we will look backmost connected fondly. Out of respect to each different and our families, we inquire for privateness arsenic we navigate this challenging clip successful some of our lives."

The caption of nan station read, "From Jax and me."

Feimster and Smith met astatine a Chicago Pride arena successful June 2015 — conscionable 1 time aft nan Supreme Court ruled to make same-sex matrimony ineligible crossed nan country.

"It was emotion astatine first sight, baby!" nan comedian told PEOPLE successful October 2022. "We happened to meet successful a parking lot, because Pride commandeers different parks and areas. I'd only been location 10 minutes erstwhile we met, and we kept moving into each different each night."

At nan time, Smith added that nan mates felt a consciousness of "ease pinch each other" correct away.

After years of making love agelong distance, nan duo sewage engaged during a travel to Big Sur, California successful January 2018. They yet decided to get married in October 2020, during nan first twelvemonth of nan COVID-19 pandemic.

Feimster and Smith antecedently told PEOPLE that they had ever wanted to get joined successful that twelvemonth and chose to person an friendly wedding alternatively of postponing.

“We conscionable decided because we don't cognize erstwhile this is going to beryllium complete and it's conscionable excessively difficult to scheme anything. We conscionable did thing speedy and mini pinch our friends,” Smith said.

Feimster besides shared that nan mates wanted to get joined erstwhile they did, because they were concerned astir matrimony equality pursuing nan decease of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

While opening up astir her 2022 drama special, Feimster revealed that she wanted her fans to cognize "me and Jax are for illustration everybody else."

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"We hap to beryllium cheery but our communicative is not overmuch different from different people's," she explained. "I want nan typical to beryllium thing everyone tin subordinate to. You don't person to beryllium cheery to subordinate to an engagement story."

The Mindy Project star added, “I get a batch of men coming up to maine aft shows being like, 'Oh my God, nan connection was nan astir nerve-racking thing,' " she said. "It's neat to beryllium capable to subordinate to them connected that."