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Today’s quote is by Dr. Jill Biden about a good marriage.
In 2019, First Lady Jill Biden published one of her most memorable works – Where the Light Comes In – the story of the Biden family. It’s a story of love, the quests of marriage, and how she built the Biden family.
The book is full of interesting tidbits about how Joe and Jill met, how they started dating, and how they got married, but this quote about marriage remains the most notable as Jill Biden does not paint a rosy picture of marrying a politician — eventually becoming First Lady. In simple words. She explained what marriage is and what a good marriage is.“Good marriages push us not to become someone else, but to become the best version of ourselves.” Jill Biden wrote.
Jill Biden’s first marriage
Jill and Joe’s marriage was not their first and they had an equal share of struggles. Jill married Bill Stevenson, a former college football player, in February 1970. They met as undergraduates at the University of Delaware. In the book, Jill called this marriage a mistake of youth although she admitted that sometimes she truly believed they were destined for each other.“He was charismatic and entrepreneurial, and eventually started his own business,” she wrote of Bill.
“We rented a stylish, modern house. Suddenly, I wasn’t just a student eating cheap food and living in a dorm anymore, I was now a wife… My parents didn’t object; in fact, my parents loved it. Most importantly, I thought I had found a love like my parents’, a partnership built on loyalty and fidelity.”She added: “For a moment, we were happy. I had found Prince Charming, and I was sure he would last forever.”Jill Biden wanted a marriage like her parents, who loved each other until their last day on this earth. But Jill did not find that love in Bill and had to make the difficult decision to divorce. She wrote that she knew absolutely no one at the time. “The very idea terrified me. It meant failure, and in my still young life, I had never failed at anything serious.”
Blind date in 1975
Joe Biden was already a senator at the time. Jill met him at a 1972 victory party for the first time, where Jill’s first husband, Bill, was a big supporter of Biden’s Senate campaign.
Three years after the first meeting, Jill Biden went on a blind date after her divorce and it happened to be with Joe Biden.Joe Biden, at the time, had lost his wife, Nella, and their 1-year-old daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. Their sons, Beau and Hunter, survived but were seriously injured. The incident occurred shortly after he won the Senate, and Joe Biden even considered resigning from the Senate after this personal tragedy.In 1977, Joe and Jill married, and in 1981, they became parents to Ashley Biden. Another tragedy struck the Biden family in 2015 when Beau Biden died of brain cancer at the age of 46.
