“For ten years, I couldn’t stand my husband anymore.” With this phrase, Michelle Obama turned on social networks. The former first lady of the United States was the guest of REVOLT media in a special broadcast last Thursday.
Michelle Obama confided about the beginnings of her marriage and especially about her relationship with Barack Obama after the arrival of their daughters, Malia and Sasha, born respectively in 1998 and 2001.
“People think I’m mean when I say that, but there were ten years when I couldn’t stand my husband. And guess when? When the kids were little.”
The young mother had to do a lot of housework, while Barack found time to “go golf” or “go to the gym.” In the early 2000s, Michelle was also pursuing her own career in law and had to juggle being a mother and a lawyer.
After a while, Michelle Obama even admits that she began to “do the numbers”, comparing the number of diapers changed between herself and Barack Obama.
The “efforts” to consolidate your marriage
Michelle Obama wanted to demonstrate with this personal example that “marriage is never 50/50”: “there are times when I’m 70 and he’s 30, other times he’s 60 and I’m 40,” she says.
Marriage is a long-term job, illustrates the American. “I mean work around marriage, work around any relationship, work around a friendship.”
Her animosity towards her husband, however, gradually waned. They are “feelings that change,” concludes the former first lady. “You have to know your person. You can look at her and say ‘I’m mad at you, but I respect you.'”
Finally, Michelle Obama relativizes. Married for 30 years to the former president, she specifies that she prefers “ten bad years to 30.” According to her, you have to “not give up.”
The open debate on social networks
On social media, several people pointed out that the former first lady simply meant “that marriage is not for those looking for a fantasy.” “Here is the reason for my respect for Michelle Obama,” tweets, for example, a Californian.
Others, on the contrary, protested against these comments. “Michelle Obama should not talk about her marriage. We are all uncomfortable with the idea that things take her time, that relationships only work if we work hard,” one can read, for example, on Twitter.
Some also denounce telling “young girls” that “hating your husband for ten years is normal.”
Source: BFM TV
