Michelle Obama, 59, admitted she doesn’t want people looking at her marriage with her husband, Barack Obama, 62, as inspiration for their own love stories. The former first lady talked about her romance with the former president and more things in her life, in a new interview that was shared on Monday.
“I don’t want people looking at me and Barack like hashtag couple goals and not know that no, no, there are some broken things that happen even in the best of marriages,” Michelle said on the “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” podcast.
Michelle and Barack were married in 1992 and have spent more than three decades together. Michelle and Barack were married in 1992. They have been together for more than three decades. “After 31 years, yes, we still do the [cross the line] but you’re quicker at it. “You apologize,” she said. You learn to say sorry, right? It takes a moment, right?
“I talk about marriage simply because I think that No. Michelle went on to say that “most people don’t even talk about marriage.” Because you don’t know, you may hit some rough spots in your relationship that are natural and understandable. You might want to leave. It’s almost like an ‘Oh no’. It’s not quit-worthy. That’s just the nature of things.’ That’s why I joked, it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re mad at your partner, you’re mad for a year and you think the marriage is over.'”
She also said that in reality, couples will have “decades” of thinking “I don’t know if I like you,” because in marriage there are arguments that you must overcome to make you stronger.
“You don’t quit on it, right? “That’s how you maintain a relationship,” she explained. It’s the decision to stick with it, and not quit when things get tough. Okay, so I probably said something I didn’t intend to say. It would have taken us days to fix the hurt feelings we had in year five. Year 30, it’s like, ‘Ah, there she goes again, or there he goes again.’ I know how to talk to him about it and when, because we’ve practiced it.”
“[The] hardest thing you will ever do … is to try to build a life with another person who wasn’t raised in your shoes, who has a different temperament,” Michelle, who shares daughters Malia, 25, and Sasha, 22, with Barack, continued, before adding that once children are brought into the situation it gets much tougher.
“Of course, it’s going to be hard, you know, but I wouldn’t trade in my marriage for anything in the world with all the ups and downs, with all the running for president stuff,” she shared. She said, “Of course, it’s going to be hard. But I wouldn’t trade my marriage for anything in the world with all the ups and downs, with all of running for president stuff.“
