Patton and Thicke didn't look particularly estranged right away, instead holding it together as a family for their son, as they surely intended to do.
Thicke immediately went on the romance offensive, dedicating "Lost Without U" to Patton in concert days later and, as he said on stage that night, "trying to get my girl back."
"She loved it," Thicke told People when asked what his wife thought of his efforts. "She thought it was the sweetest thing and very romantic, and I've always been a romantic guy that way."
"We've known each other since we were teenagers. All I can tell you is there's a deep love there—always was, and always will be," Patton told Vanity Fair that spring.
But apparently the Warcraft star really did want her space, because Thicke told New York's Hot 97 in July 2014 that he hadn't seen her in four months.
Despite the rampant cheating rumors, which only got more sordid in the wake of their separation, the singer insisted that wasn't why they had split up.
"We're apart because we just couldn't be together anymore for a while," he said. "There's a hundred different reasons, there isn't just one. There's a long list… I changed, and I got a little too selfish, a little too greedy and little too full of myself."
Basically all of the things he told Oprah he was strenuously trying to avoid.
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