Barack & Michelle Obama’s ‘crumbling’ marriage: everything they have said

In his book from 2020 A promised landBarack wrote about his “not so perfect” wedding with Michelle.

“Despite the success and popularity of Michelle, I remained an undercurrent of tension in her feeling, subtly but constant, like the vague thrum of a hidden machine,” he wrote.

He continued: “It was as if, within the walls of the White House, it was limited when all her earlier sources of frustration became more concentrated, livelier, whether it was my round with work, or the way in which politics exposed our family to control and attack, or the tendency of even friends and family members to treat her role as secondary.”

The former potus also spoke very much about his wife as his anchor when they were still in the White House.

“Lying next to Michelle in the dark, I would think of those days that everything felt lighter between us, when her smile was more constant and our love was less burdened and my heart would suddenly sharpen the thought that those days may not return,” Barack added.