Obama's marriage lessons for men: The Standard (Nairobi, Kenya)

Quoted via The Standard (Nairobi, Kenya):

Women say that all men are the same. Someone even declared that men are dogs. But if you ask any woman about US president Barack Obama, she will tell you that ‘Obama is different’. True, President Obama is different — and not because he is the first black US president ever, that too — but for our interest here, because he has been to his wife, Michelle, what many other women only experience when watching a Mexican love drama. Michelle is evidently living the so-much-read about but rarely experienced happily-ever-after — and not because she is the first black American first lady.

The sight of a husband in the company of his wife is not a new phenomenon. We see it everywhere we look. Even in local politics — we see the President accompanied by the First Lady on many occasions; ministers walking shoulder to shoulder with their wives on national days and so on. But it is from the Obama’s that we have witnessed high profile public display of affection. Walking side by side to attend a friends wedding or for the Jamhuri Day celebrations is no big deal; even separated couples are capable of that. It is the way the Obama’s hold, look each other in the eye and smile; the way they talk about each other and their marriage and their child-like playfulness that makes their marriage different. And we are yet to see this kind of action among many of our husbands and boyfriends. more