Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes depend on “communication” to make their relationship work.

The 43-year-old actor has been in a relationship with ‘Misplaced River’ star Eva, 50, since 2011 and now her brother Carlo Mendez has claimed that the “key” to their success as a pair is at all times having “an understanding” of what the opposite one is experiencing at any given time.

He instructed Us Weekly: “They only have a fantastic understanding. It’s communication. I feel the important thing in any relationship is communication and having an understanding of what every individual goes via and simply speaking it out. It’s fairly simple while you do this. It’s communication and understanding as effectively. They’re soulmates.”

The ‘Barbie’ star – who has Esmeralda Amada, 9, and seven-year-old Amada Lee with Eva – met his important different on the set of ‘The Place Past the Pines’ and just lately described Eva because the “lady of [his] goals” and famous that cinema as an entire has given him the lifetime of his “goals” as a result of he now has two kids.

While accepting the the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Movie on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Competition, he mentioned: “I bought to fulfill the lady of my goals. I’ve two dream kids. I dreamed of at some point making motion pictures and now motion pictures have made my life a dream.

“So the best way I see it, there isn’t any method I’ve contributed half as a lot to cinema as cinema has contributed to me. However the concept I’d’ve given one thing again to the factor that has given a lot to me is simply too nice an honor for me to precise.