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By Victoria Edeme<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ex-President Barack Obama has restated his commitment to his marriage and, by implication, his wife of 29 years, Michelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the couple marked their 29th wedding anniversary on Sunday, the former POTUS had tweeted at the mother of his two kids:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHappy anniversary, Miche! Over the past 29 years, I\u2019ve loved watching the world get to know you not just as a daughter of the South Side, but as a mother, lawyer, executive, author, First Lady, and my best friend. I can\u2019t imagine life without you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former First Couple had revealed that they nearly got divorced after the birth of their first child, Malia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a tour of her book, Becoming, which was launched with a countrywide videoed tour, Michelle had told one of her interviewers, Gayle King, that she and Barack were able to weather their marital storm after they had consulted with a marriage counsellor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms King expressed regrets that she didn\u2019t have the privilege to save her own marriage as Michelle did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, in Barack\u2019s new memoir, A Promised Land, the former POTUS had opened up about his and Michelle\u2019s marriage issues after their eldest daughter, Malia, was born in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the book, which launched on Wednesday, November 17, 2020, Barack explained that he was able to focus on being a father while he was at home with Malia that summer after she was born, but once his paternity leave ended and he had to return to work at three jobs (not to mention plan his run for Congress in 2000), he could not spend as much time with his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMichelle bore the brunt of all this, shuttling between mothering and work, unconvinced that she was doing either job well,\u201d Barack wrote. \u201cAt the end of each night, after feeding and bath time and story time and cleaning up the apartment and trying to keep track of whether she\u2019d picked up the dry cleaning and making a note to herself to schedule an appointment with the pediatrician, she would often fall into an empty bed, knowing the whole cycle would start all over again in a few short hours while her husband was off doing \u2018important things,\u2019\u201d Obama stated in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barack revealed that his schedule caused riffs in his marriage with Michelle, who didn\u2019t think it was fair that he was devoting so much time to his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe began arguing more, usually late at night when the two of us were thoroughly drained. \u2018This isn\u2019t what I signed up for, Barack,\u2019 Michelle said at one point. \u2018I feel like I\u2019m doing it all by myself,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s when Barack confessed that he considered ending everything. Their relationship took a turn for the better after Barack lost the Democratic primary race for Illinois\u2019 1st congressional district in 2000 and Barack realized how much his family meant to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He recalled the feeling when he was flying back on a plane after losing his congressional run. \u201cI was almost 40, broke, coming off a humiliating defeat and with my marriage strained. I felt for perhaps the first time in my life that I had taken a wrong turn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former president has continued to enthuse about his wife\u2019s sexiness and support over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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