Michelle Obama: 'Everybody would know' if my marriage was in trouble
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Michelle Obama is shooting down talk of marital strife between her and former President Obama, saying “everybody would know” if their relationship was in trouble. 

“If I were having problems with my husband, everybody would know about it,” the former first lady said while appearing on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast, released Thursday.

Her response came after host Steven Bartlett noted that Obama’s absence at President Trump’s inauguration in January ignited online chatter of discord in the couple’s 32-year union. 

Not attending the inauguration, Bartlett said, led some to think “there’s an issue with you and Barack, there’s a divorce coming.”

“Let me tell you,” Obama said after laughing and pointing to her brother, Craig Robinson, as the siblings promoted their “IMO” podcast, “he would know it. And everybody would know it.”

“I’m not a martyr,” Obama, 61, continued.

“I would be problem-solving in public, like, ‘Let me tell you what he did,'” she said of her ex-commander in chief spouse. 

“If they were having a problem, I’d be doing a podcast with him,” Robinson quipped of his brother-in-law.

Opening up about her relationship at another point in the conversation, Obama said, “The beauty of my husband and our partnership is that neither one of us was ever really, ever gonna quit at it, because that’s not who we are. And I know that about him. He knows that about me.”

“I talk about these things because I think that people give up too quickly on marriage,” the “Becoming” author said.

“Because there is so much friction built into the equation. And if you’re not getting help, talking about it, going to therapy, just understanding how things are changing, and how do you continuously renegotiate your relationship with your partner, I just see people quitting,” she said.

“Because they look at me and Barack and go, ‘#couple goals.’ And I’m like, it’s hard,” Obama said.

“It’s hard for us too. But I wouldn’t trade it. He is as the young people say he is ‘my person.'”

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