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In her 2018 memoir
Becoming, and during an accompanying book tour, Mrs. Obama revealed that she and President Obama had gone to marriage counseling earlier in their marriage. What I learned about myself was that my happiness was up to me and I started working out more, I started asking for help, not just from him but from other people, she said on
Good Morning America at the time. Marriage counseling, for us, was one of those ways where we learned to talk out our differences, she said.
Speaking with PEOPLE in 2018, she said it was important for us to be honest and say, If you re in a marriage and there are times you want to leave, that s normal because I felt that way.