“Today” Co-Host Dylan Dreyer Files for Divorce from Brian Fichera 8 Months After Announcing Separation

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• Dylan Dreyer filed for divorce from Brian Fichera on March 10, PEOPLE confirms

• The Today show co-host announced her split in July and said it had happened “a few months” before that

• She and Fichera, who were married for 12 years, share three sons

Dylan Dreyer has officially filed for divorce.

The Today show co-anchor announced in July that she had separated from her husband of 12 years, Brian Fichera. More than eight months later, on March 10, Dreyer, 44, filed for divorce from Fichera — with whom she shares sons Cal, Ollie and Rusty — PEOPLE confirms.

Dreyer wrote on Instagram in July that her separation had happened “a few months ago,” though she did not specify the exact timing of the decision.

“For many years, I have shared my family with you all — the highs and lows, the ups and downs, and all of the blessings and beautiful memories in between,” she wrote. “I am incredibly grateful for the support and love you’ve given me through it all. For that reason, I want to share with you that a few months ago, Brian and I made the decision to separate.”

“We began as friends, and we will remain the closest of friends,” she continued. “Most importantly, we will continue to co-parent our three wonderful boys together with nothing but love and respect for one another.”

At the time, a source told PEOPLE that the couple “remain best friends” and are “committed to coparenting and putting their three children first.”

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Dreyer spoke about her separation on-air in November during a guest host stint on Today with Jenna & Friends after Jenna Bush Hager asked about her dating life.

“I appreciate everyone’s comments that have spoken up about my life and our decisions and what we have decided as a family, thank you for your opinions on that,” she said, before offering new insight on her split.

“Everybody has their reasons for what leads to a separation or divorce. That’s another story with a lot of wine and that’s a whole different thing, but either way we’ve gotten to this place,” she said. “And there’s something freeing, I think, for Brian and I, where — whatever reasons, whatever broke in a marriage — you could either fix it if you can and ideally you would, and you try, and you try to fix things. Or you accept that it’s broken and you take this new step forward.”

With Fichera, “there was something we couldn’t fix,” she said, so she and her ex-husband have “reframed” their relationship.

“We are no longer husband and wife, and all those things that were broken, I don’t hold them against you because we’ve accepted they’re broken,” she explained. “That’s why we’re separated. So now let’s move forward as friends.”

“And I’m not mad at those other things that I was getting mad at before because, just like a friend, you give them a little more grace when you’re not married to it. And I can be a better friend than a wife,” she continued.

She and Fichera “even talked to the kids about it,” she said.

“I asked Calvin. I said, ‘What do you think a family is?’ And he said, ‘Well, it’s a group of people that love each other.’ And I said, ‘That’s what we are. And we will always be that for you. But Mommy and Daddy work better as friends than as husband and wife.’ And he doesn’t care about a title. He doesn’t care what we are officially — none of them do. They are surrounded by love every single day.”

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