Kate Hudson: 'Respect is key in relationships'

Kate Hudson has stressed the importance of respect in a relationship.

The actress, who has a 7-year-old son Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson and is currently pregnant with fiancé Matt Bellamy's baby, claimed that people want different things from relationships as they get older.

Explaining how her relationship values have changed as she has got older, she told The Daily Telegraph: "It just becomes more adult - that passionate, crazy love changes. The things you want in a partnership are different than when you were younger. Now it's about respect, honesty, full partnership and compromise - all the great stuff. I think respect is what makes love last.

"I think, when you have kids, this shift happens where, all of a sudden, your life and your priority becomes your children, first and foremost. If you do enter a relationship, you have to balance out the relationship and all the other things in your life, but your real focus is your children. So having kids obviously shifts the focus of what it is to love and be in a relationship."

Hudson insisted that she would never let anyone walk all over her and doesn't like arguing over "petty" problems.

She added: "I'm not threatened or jealous. From the beginning, I don't tolerate any of the petty stuff. I think anybody who knows me or is in a relationship with me knows that if they start doing that kind of thing, I'll say something.

"Also, being a parent makes you grow up. When you see kids walking all over their parents, you realise they're just doing it because they know they can. Ryder would never do that, because he knows he can't. It's the same with friendships."