“This Light Within Us” is the new release from former US First Lady Michelle Obama. The opportunity to return to his emblematic couple with the former Democratic President, Barack Obama.
The success of Michelle Obama’s memoir, published in 2018, has revived the literary epic of the former first lady of the United States with This light in usreleased on November 15, 2022. According to its French publisher, Flammarion, this book shares “advice, stories and effective strategies to remain optimistic and serene in the face of the uncertainties of today’s world”.
This is therefore an opportunity for Michelle Obama to return to her relationship with former Democratic President Barack Obama. Both studied at the elitist Harvard University, but it was only a few years later that they would meet during an internship at the law firm Sidley Austin in 1989. A couple arrived at the top thanks to Barack Obama, president from 2009 to 2017.
In this new book, the former First Lady returns in particular to her couple and to “how to build lasting relationships”? The well-known magazine People was able to share an excerpt from the book where Michelle Obama confided in her couple: “People regularly ask me for advice on their romantic relationships. They see photos of Barack and me together, on which we smile, we look at each other and we seem fulfilled with each other. They ask me how we managed to stay married and not miserable for thirty years. I want to tell them ‘it’s also a surprise for us, sometimes!’. And I’m not kidding. Of course we have our issues, but I love this man and he loves me, for now, and seemingly forever,” she wrote.
Michelle Obama’s relationship secrets
Michelle Obama of a discreet nature about her relationship had let herself go to a few confidences in one of her podcast in 2020. She had been able to describe her vision of marriage describing it as “something difficult”. Michelle Obama had warned young couples about their future relationships: “You have to know that there will be times – long periods – when you can’t stand each other. There were times when I wanted to push Barack by the window,” she said. The lawyer by profession had also told her listeners that the new generation can sometimes give up too quickly when they embark on a new relationship. His advice to persevere. In her podcast, she gives her advice to couples who listen to her, in case of difficulties some “give up because they think it’s all over”. Taking a cue from her relationship, Michelle Obama told Spotify “that if this stuff breaks up a marriage, then Barack and I have spent our time breaking up and making up.”
The former First Lady also shared in her 2008 memoir, Become, and other interviews, that couples therapy had been a valuable tool for his relationship. During a meet with host Jimmy Fallon, she had been able to admit that in difficult times, seeing a specialist was important: “seeing marriage counseling was a turning point for me, I understood that it was not up to my husband to make me happy, and I had to realize that I had to be myself. That I had to put myself at the top of my priority list,” she confided. A therapy that seems to have worked because years after their meeting in 1989, the couple still seems very complicit. They also celebrated their 30 years of union in October 2022.