Michelle Obama Reveals the 1 Surprising Marriage ‘Deal’ She Has with Barack Obama

Michelle Obama is opening up about her relationship with former president Barack Obama.

During an appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast on Tuesday, May 13, the former first lady, 61, spoke about one rule she asks both her husband, 63, and her brother, Craig Robinson, to follow.

“Both Barack and Craig will say that I don’t let them tease me,” Michelle shared. “See, we have a deal, Barack and I, in our marriage, and it started very early. It’s like, ‘I can tease you, but you cannot tease me.’ ”

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Elsewhere in the episode, Michelle said that although she had been candid about her relationship in the past — even opening up about the more difficult parts of their marriage as the first couple — she said that divorce was never a possibility for them.

“The beauty of my husband and our partnership is that neither one of us was really ever gonna quit at it, ’cause that’s not who we are,” she said. “And I know that about him. He knows that about me.” 

Michelle added that as for controversies like her decision not to attend Trump’s January inauguration: “I feel like now I have permission to do what I want to do.”

“I think at 61, I’m finally owning my wisdom,” she continued. “I think it takes women until we’re about 60 to be like, ‘I think I know a thing or two.'”