Tom Cruise’s Romantic History: Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, More

More impressed by his moves was his Risky Business costar Rebecca De Mornay, whom he started dating after the R-rated romance hit theaters in August 1983.
“There’s something earnest and virtuous about him that’s quite rare,” she told Rolling Stone in 1986. “There’s definitely something different about kids who come from broken homes. They have this sort of searching quality, because you’re searching for love and affection, if you’ve been robbed of a substantial amount of time with your parents. I think that’s true of Tom.”
They stayed together while he was in London filming the action fantasy Legend, but broke up after he returned to the U.S. to shoot Top Gun. 
“Relationships are hard,” Cruise told Rolling Stone in 1986. “You have to know when you’re going to be in a different place from someone else, you have to have the strength to separate. People are more prone to stay together for the security, which is something in my life that I have really not done, in relationships or even in business. If something’s not working, you’ve got to face it and move on.”
Asked about settling down, he said, “I don’t know if I could get married. Right now, in my present state of mind, I don’t believe so. I need a lot of space for myself and my work. You can’t say, ‘Okay, let’s keep that thought—I’ll be back to you in a couple of months when I finish this.’ But I do enjoy being in a relationship.”