![]() was worth every ounce of energy they were putting into it, but somewhere along the way lost the notion of themselves as a team. The Conways may have felt that the struggle for the future of the U.S. People who want to stay married, therapists note, have to at some point prioritize their relationship. They don’t fight a lot, they’re a good team, it’s just that they’ve let the love die without even a whimper.” “That’s why these late-divorcing couples appear to others to be a mystery. “Evidence from the UCLA Sloan Center study of dual career couples in Los Angeles shows that the majority of couples today focus on careers and children, and then their lives devolve into a very long to-do list that they get through together,” says John Gottman, who with his wife, Julie, has researched marriages and counseled couples for several decades. Nobody, of course, knows what really happens in a marriage, but it’s possible that the Conways were so preoccupied with political issues, not to mention an adolescent daughter who went viral feuding with her mom on social media, that they simply didn’t have the bandwidth to do the amount of relationship maintenance necessary to keep the flames lit. But his vows to me, I feel, were broken, because we were all in.” George, for his part, says he took to Twitter to get his frustrations off his chest, so he wouldn’t scream at his wife. George owes no allegiance to a political party or a presidential candidate. “He can change his mind about Donald Trump. ![]() “George became an expert on many things people wanted him to be, and all I really wanted was my husband and the father of my children as I always had him,” she told CNN, noting that she was not made aware that her husband would be publicly criticizing her boss ahead of time. While the couple didn’t go into details about what predicated the split, Kellyanne’s memoir Here’s the Deal, in which she accused George of “cheating by tweeting” and her media tour for the book offered some broad hints. Read More: Kellyanne Conway: First Woman to Run a Winning Presidential Campaign That would have to be a really tough thing to handle.” “That was clearly more the case for the Conways because they had two very different roles about something highly polarizing, publicly. ![]() “It makes a difference for couples whether the pressure is purely an external threat or both external and interpersonal between the two partners,” Stanley notes. There are different types of stressors on marriages, including external ones such as health issues, financial setbacks, or a sick child, and interpersonal ones, such as an affair or addiction. “We married more than two decades ago, cherish the many happy years (and four corgis) we’ve shared, and above all else, our four incredible children, who remain the heartbeat of our family and our top priority.” “We are in the final stages of an amicable divorce,” the couple wrote in the statement. So it was with some sadness that enthusiasts of unlikely marriages learned this week that the Conways didn’t make it. He encouraged her, for example, to take the job as Trump’s campaign manager. How could two people who seemed to disagree so vehemently in public keep it together on the domestic front? What do you say to your wife after publicly insulting the leader she is paid to promote? What do you say to your conservative husband after a hard day at the office of obliterating norms? And yet the Conways had been married for decades, had four children, and had at least until recent times always seemed such ardent supporters of each other. One comes away from reading the piece both fascinated and baffled as to how these two were managing to live together.In the museum of unusual marriages, the union of George and Kellyanne Conway was always a very popular exhibit. “Knowing what I know now,” he said in the article, “I would have said no, and never mentioned it when I got home.” Still, he emphasized that the problem was Trump, not his then-wife. One is my work and one is my marriage.” She then goes on to call George’s tweets about her boss “impolite” and “disrespectful.” George, meanwhile, regretted being the one to originally introduce his wife to Trump. For example, Kellyanne told the reporter, “I feel there’s a part of him that thinks I chose Donald Trump over him … Which is ridiculous. ![]() “He’s our president,” Kellyanne said at one point, to which George quipped back, “We’ll see how long that lasts.” In the article, the two don’t fully bash each other, but they do say some shady things. The reporter visited the Conways’ house, where he witnessed moments of marital strife that seemed right out of a sitcom. The tensions in the Conway marriage were captured in a now-classic Washington Post piece in August 2018.
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