Eva Mendes is more than happy about her unspoken agreement with Ryan Gosling .

The Hitch star had a thriving acting career until she met Gosling while filming The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). She then stopped acting to spend more time with their children, Esmeralda Amada, 9, and Amada Lee, 7, but is adamant that she didnt mind and wanted to.

It was like a no-brainer, she said Tuesday in a clip from her upcoming Today show interview . Im so lucky, and I was like, if I could have this time with my children and I still work, I just didnt act, because acting takes you on location. It takes you away.

It was almost just like a nonverbal agreement that it was like, OK, hes [Gosling] going to work and Im going to work. Im just going to work here, Mendes continued about her modeling work and multiple fashion and cosmetics lines.

Mendes landed her big break after starring opposite Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001). Her career skyrocketed with rom-coms such as Hitch and crime dramas such as We Own the Night, but slowed after she met Gosling as his love interest in Pines.

Ive never experienced anything like that, Mendes said in the interview. The way he works, his commitment to his craft, how he wants to make everything as best as it can be and that means making his co-stars as best as they can be.

Unfortunately or fortunately theres only one Ryan, so I pretty much stopped acting after that.