robot-heart-politics:

allthingsalishan:nyminute:

“I think we have a wonderful marriage. I love my husband.  He’s my best friend. But I always like to talk honestly about it because I think about other young couples who think there are no struggles to get here. And there are.  That’s part of it.  The message is - work through the struggles.  Start out with somebody that you respect and that you trust so that when you hit the bumps that are inevitable you always have that foundation. I tell Barack as mad as he can make me I look at him and I say, “I really LIKE you.  I like you. and I like the way you think and I like the person you.  It’s hard to stray to far to stay mad too long, when the person is someone you like.”

- Michelle Obama, to Oprah on The Christmas at the White House special

This is exactly and absolutely right.  I’m so glad to see such a prominent national figure out there saying it in such a public forum.   This is a message young couples can’t possibly hear often enough.