Even in a good marriage, being first lady is the worst
BEFORE every campaign of Barack Obama’s political career, he knew he needed Michelle’s buy-in.
Even though she gave the go-ahead each time, the former president writes in his recent memoir, A Promised Land, she set boundaries around her involvement in any campaign and made it clear when she wasn’t happy. With Obama away from home so often – first in Springfield, Illinois, and then in Washington, DC – the bulk of the domestic duties fell to her, he writes, and that’s not how they had envisioned their partnership.
