Ina Garten gets candid about her longtime marriage to husband Jeffrey in her new memoir, revealing that the two once separated: 'It was the hardest thing I ever did.'
"At my lowest point, I wondered if the only answer would be to get a divorce," Garten shares in her new memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens."Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog.
"I thought about it a lot, and at my lowest point, I wondered if the only answer would be to get a divorce," Garten recalls. "I loved Jeffrey and didn’t want to shock — or hurt — him, so I’d start by suggesting we pause for a separation." When the shop closed for the winter, Garten moved back to Washington, D.C., where she reconnected with Jeffrey. They were in a "a painful limbo," Garten recounts. "I doubted we could make our relationship work, and that we might be heading for divorce. I just couldn’t live with him in a traditional 'man and wife' relationship. Jeffrey hadn’t done anything wrong. He was just doing what every man before him had done.
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