"I think the accepted narrative now is that we, as women, don't need anybody. But I need my husband. His unique and specific love has changed me," says Hathaway as reported by Contactmusic.
The 34-year-old Oscar winner shares 11-month-old son, Jonathan, with Shulman. The couple tied the knot in 2012.
"I can't believe we don't already have it. When (my son) Johnny was a week old and I was holding him and I was in the ninth level of ecstasy, I just all of a sudden thought, 'Mommy guilt is invented nonsense.'