Barack Obama is admitting his presidential ambitions took a toll on his marriage. The family spent eight years in the White House, so the former president knows he has to make up that time to his wife — and he’s letting everyone.
The former first lady hasn’t kept her thoughts on the topic a secret either. She’s been open about their marital issues for years and how putting his career first impacted their family. Who could forget her 2022 quote from her Revolt TV appearance: “People think I’m being catty by saying this – it’s like, there were 10 years where I couldn’t stand my husband.”
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Once she left the White House, she was able to relax and recall how hard Barack Obama’s political run had been on the family.
“A presidential run, I feared, would really bang us up,” she wrote in her memoir, Becoming. “But I’d seen enough of the divisions to temper my own hopes. Barack was a Black man in America, after all. I didn’t really think he could win.” When he did win, their lives, including daughters Malia and Sasha, changed forever.
Barack Obama’s side of the story
Barack Obama recognized the sacrifices his wife made so he could pursue his dream.
“During the time we were there, Michelle felt this underlying tension. The pressure, stress, of needing to get everything right, to be ‘on’ at every moment,” he told People in November 2020. “There were times where I think she was frustrated or sad or angry but knew that I had Afghanistan or the financial crisis to worry about, so she would tamp it down.”
Now, the 44th president is doing his best to make it up to her in their post-White House years.
“I was in a deep deficit with my wife,” Barack Obama said at a Hamilton College chat on April 3, via The Daily Beast. “So, I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”
The former president’s admission comes on the heels of the divorce rumors that have been plaguing the couple for months after Michelle skipped the late President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Jan. 7 and Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. It appears that she wasn’t interested in interacting with the Trump family though — it had nothing to do with her marriage. And no, Barack Obama is not having a fling with Jennifer Aniston which was easily one of the weirdest rumors to come out of that story.
The former president knows what he needs to do now that he’s out of Washington, D.C. and it’s about putting Michelle first. It’s her time to shine!
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