Tom Brady Says Gisele Bündchen ‘Wasn’t Satisfied With Our Marriage' Before Couples Counseling
Tom Brady just got extremely candid about his relationship with wife/supermodel/actual goddess Gisele Bündchen.
On Wednesday, April 8, Brady spoke to Howard Stern on SiriusXM about the ups and downs of his marriage, revealing they'd gone through couples counseling because Bündchen "wasn't satisfied" with their relationship dynamics. Brady and Bündchen, who met on a blind date, have been married for just over 10 years and share two children together, 7-year-old Vivian Lake and 10-year-old Benjamin. (Brady also has a 12-year-old son, John Edward Thomas, with his ex, Bridget Moynahan.)
“A couple of years ago, she didn’t feel like I was doing my part for the family,” the former New England Patriots quarterback said. (In case you missed it, Brady recently shocked the NFL world by leaving his team of 20 years to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)
“She felt like I would play football all season and she would take care of the house, and then all of a sudden when the season ended, I’d be like, ‘Great, let me get into all of my other business activities, Let me get into my football training,’" he said. "And she’s sitting there going, ‘Well when are you going to do things for the house? When are you going to take the kids to school and do that?'”
This is not exactly a novel dilemma for married couples, but Brady said he learned to check himself because "She was like, 'I have goals and dreams too.'"
Unfortunately, it wasn't so simple at first. Brady admitted to Stern that he was initially "resentful" of Bündchen’s complaints, causing the couple to seek outside counseling. “She actually wrote me a letter, and it was a very thought-out letter that she wrote to me, and I still have it and I keep it in a drawer and I read it,” he said. “It’s a very heartfelt letter for her to say this is where I’m at in our marriage, and it’s a good reminder for me that things are going to change and evolve over time. What happened and what worked for us 10 years ago won’t work for us forever because we are growing in different ways.”
To address his wife's concerns, Brady began to pull back from some organized team practice activities (OTAs) and other business ventures to spend more time with his children. “Because with my family, the situation wasn’t great,” Brady said. “[Bündchen] wasn’t satisfied with our marriage, so I needed to make a change in that.”
He continued, “The point of a relationship is that it has to work for both. You better work on both because if you don’t then it’s not sustainable.”
I'm just glad Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen worked it all out.
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