Robin Wright<\/strong><\/a> is the first to admit she has \u201cregrets\u201d as a parent.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a huge regret as a mother and have experienced the fallout of this regret for many years with my kids \u2014 I wasn\u2019t hard enough on them,\u201d Wright, 59, told The Times of London<\/a> in an interview published on Saturday, August 30. The House of Cards actress shares two children, Dylan<\/strong> and Hopper<\/strong>, with her ex-husband, Sean Penn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n According to Wright, Sean, 65, was the stricter parent.<\/p>\n \u201cBut he was gone so much of the time. He\u2019d come back and be the policeman and then he\u2019d leave me with the residue,\u201d Wright continued.\u201cThen I would soften the blow. We were both extremes. They didn\u2019t get that grey area in the middle, which is stern, and that is what they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n Sean Penn Introduces Daughter Dylan to Madonna After NYC Concert<\/a><\/p>\n Wright \u2014who is promoting her latest film The Girlfriend, in which she plays an over-protective mom who doesn\u2019t approve of her son\u2019s latest partner \u2014 admitted it hasn\u2019t always been smooth sailing when her own children have introduced her to their significant others<\/p>\n \u201cI felt like that with a couple of girls my son brought home, where I was, like, \u2018No, this is not going to work.\u2019 And it didn\u2019t work, thank God,\u201d she admitted. \u201cYou\u2019re always going to have that intrinsic mummy radar.\u2019<\/p>\n Wright met Sean on the set of the 1990 movie State of Grace, and the pair married in 1996. The actors had both been married previously \u2014 Sean was married to Madonna<\/strong> from 1985 to 1989, and Wright was married to Dane Witherspoon<\/strong> from 1986 to 1988.<\/p>\n Robin Wright and Sean Penn<\/span> Jon Kopaloff\/FilmMagic<\/span><\/p>\n The pair separated in 2007 and divorced in 2010. Both have spoken publicly about the steps they had to take in order to become friends again.<\/p>\n \u201cIt turns out it\u2019s a lot quicker to repair a friendship after divorce if there are not kids involved,\u201d Penn explained in a 2022 interview with The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cIt took Robin and I quite a while. There was a lot of drama.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor continued, \u201cMuch more important to repair it if there are kids involved, but no easy swing, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n