" “Lying next to Michelle in the dark, I'd think about those days when everything between us felt lighter, when her smile was more constant and our love less encumbered, and my heart would suddenly tighten at the thought that those days might not return,”
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Barack Obama's highly-anticipated memoir, A Promised Land —the first volume, at least—doesn't officially come out until November 17. But we're already getting some clues to what the 44th President of the United States will be talking about thanks to a new excerpt obtained by CNN.
Of course, his wife, Michelle, is a major figure, and in the excerpt Obama opens up about how the presidency affected his marriage.
"And yet, despite Michelle's success and popularity, I continued to sense an undercurrent of tension in her, subtle but constant, like the faint thrum of a hidden machine," he writes. "It was as if, confined as we were within the walls of the White House, all her previous sources of frustration became more concentrated, more vivid, whether it was my round the clock absorption with work, or the way politics exposed our family to scrutiny and attacks, or the tendency of even friends and family members to treat her role as secondary in importance."
Divorce is coming.
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Barack Obama's highly-anticipated memoir, A Promised Land —the first volume, at least—doesn't officially come out until November 17. But we're already getting some clues to what the 44th President of the United States will be talking about thanks to a new excerpt obtained by CNN.
Of course, his wife, Michelle, is a major figure, and in the excerpt Obama opens up about how the presidency affected his marriage.
"And yet, despite Michelle's success and popularity, I continued to sense an undercurrent of tension in her, subtle but constant, like the faint thrum of a hidden machine," he writes. "It was as if, confined as we were within the walls of the White House, all her previous sources of frustration became more concentrated, more vivid, whether it was my round the clock absorption with work, or the way politics exposed our family to scrutiny and attacks, or the tendency of even friends and family members to treat her role as secondary in importance."
Divorce is coming.
Barack Obama Is Opening Up About the Toll the Presidency Took on His Marriage to Michelle
The former president's new memoir comes out November 17.