American football player Tom Brady has opened up about attending marriage counselling with his supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen.
Speaking on the Howard Stern radio show, the former Patriots quarterback and now Tampa Bay footballer, said the move came about because his wife said that he wasn’t pulling his weight at home.
The 39-year-old Brazilian model wrote him a letter setting out all the problems that they had in their marriage.
"She didn't feel like I was doing my part for our family, she felt like I would play football all season and she would take care of the house and all of a sudden when the season would end, I would be like, 'Great, let me get into all my other business activities. Let me get into my football training.'" Brady said.
"And she's sitting there going, 'Well, when are you going to do things for the house? When are you going to take the kids to school and do that?' And that was a big part of our marriage. I had to, like, check myself. Because she's like, 'I have goals and dreams too.'"
Revealing that he still keeps that letter in a drawer, he said: "So, two years ago, as it related to your football for me, I had to make a big transition in my life to say, I can't do all the things that I wanted to do for football like I used to," he said.
"I gotta take care of things in my family because my family- the situation wasn't great. She wasn't satisfied with our marriage. So I needed to make a change in that. Her point was, 'Well, yeah, of course this works for you. It all works for you. But it doesn't work for me.'
"Because you can get caught up in your life where you think a relationship's great because it only works for you, and the point of a relationship [is] it has to work for both. You'd better work on both 'cause if you don't, then ultimately, it's not sustainable."
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