'If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up,' Michelle Obama says in Becoming
In the Netflix documentary, Mrs. Obama is also open about her and her husband's marriage counseling, a topic she also addressed in her memoir and book tour., Mrs. Obama admits she initially thought counseling would "fix" the former president.
With the help of marriage counseling, Mrs. Obama reminded herself not to forget to also prioritize her happiness. "One of the things I learned that helped me, and I think helped our marriage was that my happiness is not dependent on him making me happy. And sometimes I felt that that was one of the rubs," she says.
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