Name: オバマ大統領の結婚についての真実 (The Truth About The Obamas' Marriage)
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Has there ever been a cuter couple than Michelle and Barack Obama?

Things have not always been easy, yet, through it all, they manage to stay happy and in love.

Here's everything you didn't know about the Obamas' marriage.

Sparks at first sight While they were drawn to each other from the

first time they met, Michelle Robinson was reluctant to date Barack Obama.

As depicted in the 2016 bio-flick Southside With You, the couple met when Barack started

working at a Chicago corporate law firm, where Michelle was assigned as his mentor.

Despite Michelle's reluctance, the former president revealed to Oprah Winfrey that he

was immediately “struck with how tall and beautiful [Michelle] was,” and said working

with her was “the luckiest break of my life.”

Michelle finally agreed to a date, and the pair got to know each other over a nice walk,

"He was hip, cutting edge, cultural, sensitive, patient..."

Attracted to ambition The former first lady has admitted that she

wasn't quite sure her relationship with Barack Obama would work out when they first

started dating, revealing her future husband “was really broke” when they met, with

a “cruddy” wardrobe and a rusted out car, and telling The Hyde Park Herald:

“I thought, 'This brother is not interested in ever making a dime.'”

Since she'd grown up in a family that lived paycheck-to-paycheck, Michelle wasn't eager

to start a similarly unstable life with another person.

Still, she found herself drawn to Barack.

In a speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Michelle revealed what kept her

"He talked about the world as it is and the world as it should be.

And he said that, all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and we settle

for the world as it is, even when it doesn't reflect our values and aspirations."

"And isn't that the great American story?"

There was almost no wedding Impossible as it is to imagine, the Obamas'

celebrated marriage might not have happened if Michelle had been a little less persistent.

According to The Washington Post, Barack was dedicated to the relationship and madly in

love with Michelle, but he didn't believe that marriage was necessary, even calling

Michelle kept turning up the pressure, though, wanting a decades-long marriage like her parents

In 1991, Barack finally surprised Michelle with a ring after she began to drop some not-so-subtle

hints about her plan to be married, reportedly telling her, "That kind of shuts you up, doesn't

It might not have been the most conventional of proposals, but it was an effective one.

The two were married on October 26th, 1992, officially taking their commitment to the

Infertility struggles Apparently, Barack and Michelle Obama's

early wedded years weren't all sunshine and rainbows.

In a 2018 interview with Good Morning America, Michelle revealed she'd suffered a miscarriage

a few years into their marriage, a heavy emotional blow that put a strain on her relationship

"And I felt like I failed because I didn't know how common miscarriages were....

We sit in our own pain, thinking that somehow we're broken."

To conceive Malia and Sasha, Michelle underwent fertility treatments, having to inject herself

Since Barack was swallowed up in his state senate work by that time, Michelle wrote in

her memoir Becoming that she was left largely on her own to ensure her reproductive system's

“peak efficiency,” though her husband remained sweet and attentive throughout the

Fortunately, the grueling process was well worth it for the couple.

On July 4th, 1998, the Obamas welcomed their first daughter, Malia, with sister Sasha following

Michelle Obama never set out to be a politician's wife, and the years of Barack Obama campaigning

and being in public office soon began to take their toll.

In her memoir Becoming, Michelle describes how her husband's hectic schedule and long

working hours would often cut into his time with their children, writing:

"I understood it was nothing but good intentions that would lead him to say, 'I'm on my way!'

I'd give the girls their nightly bath but delay bedtime so that they could wait up to

"He's flittering in… there were… tensions started to arise."

When you get married and have kids, your whole plan, once again, gets upended.

Especially if you get married to somebody who has a career that swallows up everything,

Number one fan Michelle has always been Barack's biggest

cheerleader, but she confessed that she didn't think he had a hope of winning the 2008 presidential

During her book tour for Becoming, Michelle revealed that she had no real wish to be the

first lady, but supported her husband's presidential run anyway, never believing he'd actually

While Michelle had faith in her husband's leadership abilities, she simply couldn't

bring herself to believe that America would, in her words, “elect a black president named

Still, she threw herself wholeheartedly into her husband's campaign, insisting on playing

an active role and telling Barack's aides, “I've never done this before.

I just need you to tell me what to do.”

Michelle's unwavering support of her husband and their aspirational marriage is likely

one of the prominent reasons Barack Obama was able to clinch the election not once,

In 2011, the 44th President of The United States opened up to Oprah Winfrey about his

wife's importance in his life, telling the talk show host:

“[Michelle] is just my rock, and I count on her in so many ways every single day.”

No shame in getting help As hard as it might be to believe, the Obamas

Their union has been tested at many points throughout the decades, and Michelle revealed

in a 2018 interview with Elle that she and Barack have sought outside counseling to work

While she admitted that she thought counseling would ultimately help her make her case against