Joe Biden reveals: “Since I’ve been in the White House, I’ve missed my wife Jill”

Become the most powerful couple in America it upsets your life. Even the conjugal one. They revealed it Joe Biden and his wife Jill a couple interview a Vogue. Theirs is a long-lived and proven love: they met in 1975, married two years later, and in 1981 they became the parents of their only daughter Ashley. Yet now that they are president and first lady of the United States they have to start over to learn how to build new balances. “Finding time for the two of us is a challengeJoe revealed. “We are both full of commitmentsJill explained. “I am proud of my wife. But I miss itThe 78-year-old president admitted. Why now even having dinner together is complicated: “Sometimes we eat on the fly on the balcony, cell phones that keep ringing.”

When they lived in Delaware, Joe and Jill once a month they went «da soli in un bed-and-breakfast del posto», to carve out “a romantic moment“. Now of course they can’t do it anymore: “We really have to find a way to steal more time for each otherSaid the American president.

A complicated challenge, of course. But Joe and Jill have gone through a lot together. When they met, he had a drama behind him that still defines today “A black hole that does not disappear”: in 1972 the young wife Neilia and the beloved daughter Naomi (just over a year old) were killed in a car accident (the other two children, Beau e Hunter, who were 3 and 2 years old at the time, survived). Jill understood Joe’s suffering, helped him to to recover, argued him. “How to bring one together broken family? In the same way that unite a nation»Explained the first lady months ago. «With love and understanding and with little ones gestures of kindness. With courage. With unshakable faith».

In May 2015, forty-three years after the first tragedy, Joe had to face the death of the eldest son Beau at age 46 after a grueling battle against a brain tumor. Biden, with the support of Jill, the fundamental pillar of his life, has once again found the strength to restart. “What I’ve been through shouldn’t stop me from fight», He confessed years ago during an interview with Stephen Colbert. “If I didn’t get up, I’d disappoint Beau, my parents, my family».

 

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