United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Strong think they "would've hated each other" if they had met 10 years earlier.

The engaged couple - who have two sons, Dakota, three, and Carson, two, together - first met in 2014 then got together in 2017 after making 'Changeland' in Thailand, and though their biggest regret is not having spent more of their lives with one another, they don't think things would have worked out quite so well if they had.

Macaulay told America's Cosmopolitan magazine: "It took me, what, 37 years? 36 years?"

Brenda replied: "But it wouldn't have happened any other way."

Macaulay then said: "No, but if I met you 10 years earlier..."

And they agreed together: "We would've hated each other."

And the ...