Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson’s Love Story

The public found out about Obama and Michelle in 2007 but they go way back to about two decades ago when Michelle Robinson, was assigned to be Barack Obama’s mentor at the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin. She was a 25-year-old attorney. She was asked to be Obama’s mentor and to show him around because the company felt that since they both graduated from Harvard then they will get along well. Little did they know that they were instigating a long time friendship and partnership. 

Michelle while speaking to ABC News said that he asked her out after about a month in. She said that she didn’t feel it was right and it ft tacky. He was never someone she thought of to date. Eventually, they had their first date in 1989. The date involved ice cream, lunch at the art institute of Chicago, taking a stroll, and then going to see the movie “Do the right thing.” After dating for three years, they had their wedding in October 1992.

1991 Engagement

The couple got engaged in 1991 at a dinner that was organised for the celebration of Barack passing his Bar exam. Barack told Michelle that as much as he loved her with his whole being, he didn’t see the need of getting married. She said they had a heated argument there and after some time, the waiter came with their dessert and a tray, and there was a diamond ring. Michelle stated that she was completely shocked as Barack went down on one knee and she said a big Yes!

The pair married on the 3rd of October, 1992

Michelle And Barack’s Children

In 1998, Michelle and Barack had their first child, a girl, Maliya Ann Obama. In her book ‘Becoming’ she revealed that she went through IVF treatment after suffering miscarriages.

 On the 4th of July. In 2001 on the 10th of July, the couple had their second child, Natasha Obama, a.k.a Sasha. Michelle told Meghan Markle that being a mother has been a master class in letting things go. During a British Vogue interview in 2019. 

“Try as we might, there’s only so much we can control. And, boy, have I tried–especially at first. As mothers, we just don’t want anything or anyone to hurt our babies. But life has other plans. Bruised knees, bumpy roads, and broken hearts are part of the deal. What’s both humbled and heartened me is seeing the resiliency of my daughters. In some ways, Malia and Sasha couldn’t be more different. One speaks freely and often; one opens up on her own terms. One shares her innermost feelings; the other is content to let you figure it out. Neither approach is better or worse, because they’ve both grown into smart, compassionate, and independent young women, fully capable of paving their own paths.”

In 2004, the public knew about Obama when he won his campaign for an Illinois U.S senate seat.

On the 10th of February 2007, Obama announced that he was coming out as the president of the United States of America. He was on campaign trails with his wife, Michelle and his two daughters.

Michelle In her book revealed that although she had supported him, she never expected him to go halfway. He is a black man who wanted to be the president of America.

On the 3rd of June 2008, Obama won the presumptive Democratic nominee for president after defeating Hilary Clinton. On November 4th of the same year, Obama was elected as the first black president of America. In his speech that night he said he would never have come this far if not for the help of his wife.

“I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation’s next first lady, Michelle Obama,”

The Obamas have never been afraid to show their affection outside. In January 2009, the newly sworn-in couple had their first dance to ‘At last’ by Beyonce. When Barack was about to start his speech, he started by asking how good-looking his wife is. 

In November 2012, Barack Obama was re-elected as president. Michelle said that,

“Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys…Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house…and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both, and the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girls. I deeply loved the man I had built that life with…and I didn’t want that to change if he became president. I loved Barack just the way he was. You see, even though back then Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate…to me, he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door. He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he’d found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.”

On January 20th 2017, Obama and his family left the White House for good after Donald Trump was sworn in as President. In October 2017, Michelle took to her Twitter to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

In 2018 Michelle released her book ‘Becoming’ and in the book, she gave us an insight into what her and Obama’s early life felt like and their life in the White House.

2019

Michelle was spotted admiring Barack’s painting in the National Portrait Gallery.

In 2020, Netflix created a documentary for Michelle’s book ‘Becoming’. Then she started her podcast, The Michelle Obama’s Podcast and of course Barack was her special guest.

“At the core of everything you have done politically, what I know about you as a person and one of the reasons why I fell in love with you,” Michelle says during the episode before Barack suggests it was “just my looks.”

“You’re cute, but you know. One of the reasons I fell in love with you is because you’re guided by the principle that we are each other’s brothers’ and sisters’ keepers,” she continues. “And that’s how I was raised. My values—in terms of what I think my personal obligation, Michelle Obama, is that it is not enough that I succeed on my own.”

The couple keeps telling us that as long as they both have each other, it is possible to do anything.