A Source close to Brady and his wife: Bringing the NFL to the Forlorn Finals and Living on the Edge with Their Families

According to a source close to Brady and Bndchen, the quarterback and his wife are dealing with issues in their marriage.

Brady went back on his retirement from the NFL, only to change his mind a second time. He took an 11-day leave of absence from training camp in August to “deal with personal things,” according to his head coach Todd Bowles.

In an interview with Elle magazine published last month, Bündchen, 42, said she had “concerns” about her husband returning to the field after initially retiring last winter.

Bndchen said she wanted him to be more present with her children because of the violent sport. “I have definitely had those conversations with him over and over again. I feel that every person has to make a decision that works for them. He needs to follow his joy, too.”

But Brady, unlike his wife, has continued full steam ahead. “I haven’t had a Christmas in 23 years and I haven’t had a Thanksgiving in 23 years,” he said on a recent episode of his podcast. I haven’t celebrated people’s birthdays with people I care about because they are born from August to January. And I’m not able to be at funerals and I’m not able to be at weddings.” Last year, Brady said he believes he’s capable of playing until he’s 50 – at which point oldest children (he also has a 15-year-old son with the actress Bridget Moynahan) will be grown.

The Brady-Bündchen Divorce Came Out of a Misleading Pair of Charmless Supermodels and Their Relation to Donald Trump

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The guesswork is understandable (I, too, want to know why a famous and beautiful couple would split up after 13 years). And given the couple’s celebrity status, the intrusion into a painful and personal moment for them is to be expected, even if it’s also pretty ill-mannered and unkind.

We don’t know what happened behind the closed doors of the Brady-Bündchen household. And it is unlikely that this divorce materialized overnight. It is likely the result of years of small disagreements, resentments and misalignments that eventually coalesced into a lump of unhappiness that was much more important than anything else.

We don’t know a lot about their lives, they have a lot of kids and we can’t tell you much about Brady’s fake newspaper or the no-nightshades diet.

Brady had a reputation as a political conservative and his previous relationship with Donald Trump could have brought him down to just mortal status if he hadn’t refused to support the former President. Scandal was averted, and the Brady-Bündchen unit maintained their cast-in-gold aura.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/opinions/tom-brady-gisele-bundchen-divorce-filipovic/index.html

Heterogeneous Marital Partners and Their Husbands: A Dilemma of a Good Husband and a Bad Husband

For a whole lot of heterosexual couples, this dynamic is a familiar and frustrating one. The woman who steps back to care for children and make sure her husband succeeds – and the husband who doesn’t quite seem to appreciate that sacrifice and continues to push professionally far past when he needs to, at the expense of his family.

Brady has said that his wife has taken on the lion’s share of managing their lives so that he can play a sport he loves, but that doesn’t seem to have changed his professional decisions. “I think my wife has, you know, held down the house for a long time now,” Brady said on his podcast last year. I think she wants to accomplish some things. She has not been working as much in the last 12 years as she used to, because she is moving to Florida where she will raise our family. But that’s an issue, and it’s a very difficult issue to reconcile without just saying, ‘Hey, it’s time to retire.’ And I think there’s, you know, we’re coming to the end here too, so I don’t want to miss any of the kids’ stuff.”

I think Bndchen captures a sentiment that is familiar to so many heterosexual married women who kept the home front occupied while supporting their husband’s career, only to have their children become independent and wonder what happened to them. “I’ve done my part, which is [to] be there for [Tom],” Bündchen told Elle. I relocated to Boston to create a supportive environment for my children to grow up in and to support him. It makes me happy to see my kids succeed and be good humans and be fulfilled in their career, and then to see him do the same. At this point in my life, I feel like I’ve done a good job on that.”

I have cheered for him all my life and would continue to do so. She said that she wanted to be the happiest person in the world. “I want him to achieve and to conquer. I want his dreams to come true. That’s what I want, really, from the bottom of my heart.”

“Sometimes you grow together; sometimes you grow apart,” she added. “When I was 26 years old and he was 29 years old, we met, we wanted a family, we wanted things together. Now we can make a choice because we realize that we just wanted different things. There is nothing that says you do not love the person. In order for you to be authentic, you have to have a partner who you can talk to in the middle of the night. It’s a dance. There is a balance.

It’s tough because you think your life was going to be certain and you did everything you could to live that way. she said. I believed in fairies when I was a kid. I think it’s beautiful to believe in that. I am so thankful that I did.