Has there ever been a cuter couple than Michelle and Barack Obama?
Things have not always been easy for the Obamas, though.
Yet, through it all, they manage to stay happy and in love.
What’s their secret?
To figure that out, we need to take a closer look at their relationship.
Here’s everything you didn’t know about the Obamas' marriage.
She initially dismissed him as a “good-looking, smooth-talking guy.”
Michelle took Barack up on the date, but didn’t make him leave his job.
She told theHyde Park Herald(viaThe Washington Post) that the future president “was really broke.”
He had a “cruddy” wardrobe and a rusted out car.
“I thought, ‘This brother is not interested in ever making a dime,'” she said.
Still, Michelle was drawn to Barack.
Michelle was won over by Barack’s idealism, and the rest is history.
It might not have been the most conventional of proposals, but it was an effective one.
The two were married the following year, taking their commitment to the next level.
She insisted on playing an active role.
I just need you to tell me what to do."
In a 2018 interview withGood Morning America, Michelle said that she had suffered a miscarriage 20 years earlier.
The loss was a heavy emotional blow.
“We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we’re broken.”
Michelle underwent fertility treatments to conceive Malia and Sasha, and the process was another ordeal.
Michelle had to inject herself daily for several weeks.
Perhaps one of the reasons their marriage is so solid is because of the approach they take to fighting.
“I am like a lit match,” Michelle toldElleabout her fighting style.
“It’s like, poof!
And he wants to rationalize everything.
And he has to understand that he can’t convince me out of my anger.
That he can’t logic me into some other feeling.”
“[Counseling] was about me exploring my sense of happiness,” she said.
“What clicked in me was that I need support and I need some from him.
But I needed to figure out how to build my life in a way that works for me.”
In an interview withToday, Michelle revealed one of the secrets to the Obamas’ strong relationship.
“One of the keys to a successful marriage is separate bathrooms,” she said.
“When he [Barack] enters my bathroom sometimes I’m like ‘Why are you in here?’
And he’s like ‘I live here, can’t I enjoy my bathroom too?'”
Barackfirst ran for State Senate in 1996, putting a lot of stress on their early years of marriage.
Michelle wrote inBecomingthat Barack would spend long hours working.
or ‘Almost home!,'" she wrote.
“And for a while, I believed those words.
“I was mad,” Michelle later toldElle.
“When you get married and have kids, your whole plan, once again, gets upended.
Fortunately, things got better for the entire family once the Obamas moved to the White House.
“The four of us sit down to eat as a family.
We haven’t had that kind of normalcy for years.
“We keep each other smiling and that’s good,” she said.
“It ain’t equal.
It’s not always enough to lean in because that s*** doesn’t work.”
“Be better!”
“Do the dishes.
Don’t babysit your children.
You don’t babysit your own children.
Don’t just think going to work and coming home makes you a man.”
Michelle went on to talk about Barack’s dedication to his children and his devotion to his wife.
Michelle’s birthday is on January 17th, just after the rush of Christmas dies down.
“So by Feb. 14, we’re kind of tired,” she said onLive!
With Regis and Kellyin 2011 (via theNew York Post).
The then-first lady added, “Got to keep the romance alive, even in the White House.”
But she also happens to be brilliant, funny, wise one of a kind.
This book tells her quintessentially American story.
I love it because it faithfully reflects the woman I have loved for so long.”
The couple also posts about each other on special occasions, like Barack’s birthday in 2018.
The view is always better with you.”
“You’re not only my wife and the mother of my children, you’re my best friend.
I love your strength, your grace, and your determination.
And I love you more each day.
Could they be any more adorable?
