Some of you wanted to believe that Tom Brady was just being sarcastic in the first round of quotes we got from his Man of the World cover interview. Well… I don’t think so. I think Tom was simply being truthful about how he whines and pouts to get Gisele Bundchen’s attention. It wasn’t sarcasm – it was self-awareness. There are more quotes from the interview and I have to say… Tom really does not come across well. What’s up, Brady?
The American football star has two children with the Brazilian supermodel however the parents can’t help but act like youngsters themselves at times.
“I’m a guy, what doesn’t she get on me for? That’s just what wives do,” he told Man of the World magazine’s Fall issue. “I like attention from her, so when I’m not getting it I let her know in immature ways, like a young, immature child would. You throw fits and you pout and you whine until you get what you want.”
Although the sportsman’s actions used to do that trick when he craved the star’s attention, now his tactics are less successful.
“She’s on to me, she knows all of my tricks. So now I have to learn new tricks,” he continued.
Tom is known as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all NFL history, and is profiled by Geoffrey Grey styled by Deborah Watson and photographed by Randall Mesdon in the publication’s latest instalment. Speaking candidly, he reflects on family, leadership and finding peace on the field.
“My wife speaks five languages. I always tell her I speak two: English and football,” Tom – who sleeps with his playbook next to his bed – joked.
“In a weird way, even though it’s hyper-intense, I really am my true self out there,” he added. “I can be who I am without having to be polite or having to be on. If someone messes up, I can let them know. If I want to be excited, I can be excited. If I want to be pissed, I can be pissed. I’m more myself in front of 70,000 people.”
“I’m a guy, what doesn’t she get on me for? That’s just what wives do.” Ruh-roh. It sounds like that Star story might have been right on the money – they claimed that Gisele makes Tom do “chores” or else she’s the one throwing tantrums. Basically, it sounds like both Gisele and Tom are tantrum-prone toddlers who can’t use their grown-up words to describe their heightened emotions.
Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of Man of the World.
Meh I get on my husband. He procrastinates or forgets about everything that I ask him
God, the procrastination and forgetfulness is the one thing that really irks me. Not enough to cause a fight, but enough that I feel the need to remind him of things all the time. “Hey, did you call the Dr?” “Hey, did you remember to pick up paper towels?” “Remember you have to go to your moms and get x item”.
There are times when he’ll be like “hey, stop nagging” and I just gently remind him that he tends to be forgetful, and then just back off for a bit. It’s a weird balancing act of figuring out what he’s forgotten and what he is just putting off on purpose. Usually though, he’s pretty thankful for it.
I would hate that. I’d feel like a mother instead of a wife…like I have this second child to care for and make sure he takes this and goes there and oh you need to call this person. No. Just no.
It’s sounds nightmarish to me.
Also, if someone forgets what I told them I take it to mean they don’t care enough to remember…
And he could be thinking ” Ah, she’ll remind me anyway so I can continue to be lazy about remembering, she’ll do it for me”. And then it becomes a habit.
It could, but luckily he is just a genuinely forgetful person. It’s not quite to parenting levels or anything, so it’s good -for now. I’ve actually started pulling back from it a bit – it was bad when we were trying to buy a house because there were just so many damn appointments and things to get done. The worst is when he puts off calling the Dr just because he hates going. There are certain things I’ll just do myself because it’s less hassle – but I do it for me, not for him. My mind is honestly, constantly going. I work in a really fast paced job, so it’s gotten habit for me to constantly be thinking of things. Even on vacation, I get in the habit of “Hey, did we pay x bill” or “We locked the door, right?” because I just can’t shut it off. So it KIND of benefits us both in the long run. Part of it is me being neurotic, part of it is him being forgetful. We balance it.
And I would like to add, that it’s not angry ‘nagging’ or anything. It’s just the casual reminders. And he doesn’t get annoyed, and usually follows through shortly after I ask.
I just book appointments for him now. He never did it. I give up.
He’s genuinely forgetful too, he’s not being a jerk. Recently, I got a bill in the mail. He forgot to pay the internet bill for 3 months (he got it via email). I paid it off right away and switched to paper bills so i can pay it now.
It just drives me nuts because we have the money. He just looked at the email and figured he’d pay it later. But then he didn’t.
I try not to nag him too much. But I have to give “gentle reminders” or he’ll miss appointments and never get anything done
It works for us for now. I’m sure we’ll need to make adjustments when I go back to work (I’m a stay at home mom right now).
Me too.
@Observer. It does become a habit. I tend to just do it myself rather than waiting for him to ‘get around to it.’
But every now and then he surprises me and takes the initiative.
This is why I never married. I am so happy being single – especially now since I am older. I have a hard enough time getting my own sh*t together, I don’t have the time or the patience to watch over someone else.
@green eyes yeaaaaaah, right.
I agree with all of the above, except when u think about it, they are good at running some of the errands, picking up kids, doing heavy-duty stuff that involves spiders. And actually with two people you splitting the household tasks in half, rather than the huge burden of doing all of them yourself. A huge plus is that you have someone to really talk to, and if you need back-up, say the neighbor’s dog barks 18 hours a day and you don’t want to get into a fight with your neighbor — they are more than happy to deal with that type of uncomfortable confrontation. And they deal with it better than I would, somehow. Also, I would rather remind somebody to do something, that have a husband like one I know, who is the control-freak go-getter, where if you happen to sit down, they jump on your case, and chastise you because you aren’t doing something. I know one guy like that, and every time I am around them, I thank God I. Am not married to him!
My first husband was a planner and never forgot anything. He basically did everything before I had a chance. My second husband was a truly forgetful person and yes, sometimes it felt like I was parenting him, too. My current husband is a nice blend of the two.
ugh, I so hope he was being sarcastic.
That’s what I get from it. He’s being tongue in cheek…and self deprecating. Like, “she’s awesome and of course I’m not worthy”
This is a passive-aggressive way to demean his wife (publically!). Tom’s marriage is doomed. You can count it over, when any kind of contempt enters a relationship.
WOLFPUP your comment really made me stop and think. I agree that contempt-disdain-lack of respect is a slippery slope, and usually that does spell doom. His comments were not affectionate or respectful. But maybe he has developed a schtick about being married to the “most beautiful woman in the world” – poor me, she busts my chops all the time, you don’t know how I suffer.
I still read this as sarcasm.
I think it was part tongue in cheek, part immaturity.
I don’t think it reflects on their marriage badly, men sometimes need to be nagged. I certainly don’t think he is demeaning his wife or means to. This is a man who routinely admits he defers to her judgement, who has publicly carried her shoes and purses on red carpets and doesn’t seem bothered despite the whole sports world calling him a little bitch who defers to his wife, I suspect he respects her.
“I’m a guy, what doesn’t she get on me for? That’s just what wives do.
I’m not from Us and i don’t understand what this phrase means…Anyone??
In general terms it means nagging someone, but in this case, I’m not sure (lol).
“I’m a guy. Women are nags. My wife nags me all the time. I’m trapped and I’ve made a terrible life decision, hey ho at least I’m married to Gisele.”
I do understand English fairly well, but I’m at a loss, too. I looked at the sentence for several minutes- at it still doesn’t make sense. What is the meaning of “get on” in that context?
Other than that Gisele seems wasted on the guy. That joke about her needing to only speak English and football rubs me the wrong way.
‘Get on’ in this context would mean a kinda shortened version of the idiom ‘get on my case’ or ‘going on’. As in, annoying someone repeatedly.
“She’s always going on at me.”
“She’s always getting on my case”
“Gisele had been getting on Tom’s case about his incessant needy nature.”
“Tom hasn’t fixed the light in the bathroom like I asked, I’ll get on about that tomorrow.”
(And the opposite – he wishes Gisele would ‘get off his case’ about stuff)
Thanks!
I don’t think he was saying that Gisele needs to only speak English and football. He said *he* only speaks English and football while she speaks 5 languages. I think it was more a joke about himself and how he may feel inadequate compared to her. To me, the subtext is,”How on earth was I able to convince this woman to marry me?!”
in_theory: You didn’t understand the interview. The joke was about himself. It wasn’t about her. He speaks English and “football”. Gisele talked about it some months ago. Jimmy Fallon wanted to know if Tom speaks Portuguese and she said he speaks English and football.
Miss D: You’re right, I just re-read his words. Sloppy of me.
He is saying that his wife nags him about everything, and that every wife nags her husband. “Nag” might also be a little strong. “Get on” implies a little justification on the part of the person who is nagging.
If he just said, “My wife nags me,” he would probably have an argument when he got home. But I think the way the Tom has phrased this statement implies that he knows he usually deserves to be nagged.
Yeah, I don’t really object to it. It sounds appreciative, like he’s glad she keeps him in line. To me all of this sounds like it comes from a place of admiration.
Who was that actress Tom knocked up before he took off with Giselle? I bet she is thanking her lucky stars these days that this isn’t her. What an immature douche. I will seriously be surprised if their marriage makes it until their kids are 18.
I agree. He sounds like a complete jerk and very very immature. I feel sorry for Giselle. It’s like having another child to put up with. I’m surprised he didn’t knock her over the head with a club and drag her home by her hair. That’s about how evolved he sounds.
Bridget Moynahan. IIRC he left Bridget high and dry after she became pregnant but in Tom’s defense I believe he plays an active role in the child’s life.
I heard a slightly different version of events. Basically they were always on and off and just before being permanently ‘off’ she got pregnant.
But him and Gisele do seem very involved in the child’s life, so kudos.
As for the quotes – they seem pretty fitting for the magazine that was interviewing him.
I read somewhere that they split custody so yup, he is active.
I also second what @Phie said, everything I have read indicated that he and Bridget were on and off near the end of their long relationship. During an off period she got pregnant and wanted to get back together permanently and he wasn’t into that.
It looked awful because he started dating Gisele soon after and everyone talked crap about it because Bridget was pregnant and because Giselle was so high profile. It then was made worse because Bridget tried to shade him in the press.
Although he comes off immature in those comments above, I will always commend Tom Brady for staying classy and saying nothing while Bridget shaded him in the press for years after.
Dislike the guy for a lot of things, but not the circumstances of Moynihan’s pregnancy. They were together for years, and the guy clearly loved being a dad so him fleeing a girlfriend of 4 years because she got pregnant doesn’t sit right. She got pregnant after they broke up (its pretty widely regarded as an attempt at a band-aid baby). Moynihan isn’t exactly a peach herself. Tom Brady pretty clearly has a type.
Phie is right. Tom didn’t know his ex was pregnant when they broke up.
As long as those two have a peaceful relationship these days and Tom is active in his son’s life then I don’t think it matters what happens. Whatever the circumstances he has been a responsible father and it makes me glad that you don’t hear this kid’s parents doing any mud-slinging in public (and hopefully not privately either). Hopefully in that regard Bridget is able to teach her son that it is NOT okay to act the way his father is acting towards his stepmom though.
Light dawns…there are TWO Tom Bradys.
(I do need to sharpen up my sleb knowledge) I was immensely confused by recent articles about an actor, a good-looking one to boot….and no mention of his supermodel spouse. This one here seems rather plank-like in comparison.
Hey Tom , FYI some men nag WORSE than women – hell My husband nags all day long. It works both ways.
You’re right, it isn’t always the stereotype. I think it has much more to do with how your parents raised you and differences in opinion about who does what and how clean is clean. My husband will wear every piece of clothing he owns before doing the laundry. I do the laundry once a week. My husband will use every item in the kitchen while he cooks and splatters food everywhere, then leaves everything in a filthy heap to dry and get crusty in the sink. I use items and clean them as I go and usually clean up everything right after cooking. I use a tool, I clean it and put it away. My husband can’t find the tool without me telling him where it is, then uses the tool and leaves it filthy wherever he used it, usually forgets about it completely and goes back to what he wants to do. We’re just trained and wired differently. If I can get him to do something I have to be very specific about my expectations. I don’t want to nag but it’s frustrating living with a slacker who procrastinates and a lot of people are like that. I procrastinate about stuff too, just not household chores.
This is a different quote from the same interview that was already covered here, correct?
Um, he’s joking and he sounds a lot like my dad and most of my married friends.
My mom always said that behind every nagging woman is a man not doing what he’s supposed to.
That being said, the nagging dynamic terrifies me. It just doesn’t seem like that’s how two people should relate to each other.
But I’m not married, so I’m pretty sure I just don’t get it.
Why is Tom Brady the only athlete that seems to get consistent coverage around here? Is it because he’s married to Gisele? I’d love to see us dissect what some other athletes say in interviews. Trust me, it’s nowhere near as benign as Tom’s comments.
If a wife says something more than once, some men consider it nagging. But it doesn’t only apply to wives/husbands. I’m sure a SO at one time or another has accused you of it, it happens.
As for Brady, I’m sure he’s joking, but the dude can definitely throw a tantrum.
“My mom always said that behind every nagging woman is a man not doing what he’s supposed to.”
I think I’d really like your mom. 🙂
but yeah, I think he gets coverage because of who he’s married to. there are a lot of stupid pro athletes out there who say mind-bogglingly dumb (and really offensive) stuff.
also, even though I’m not a fan (GO BIG BLUE!), I acknowledge that he’s a great QB, he’s good looking, and he’s NOT dumb as a box of rocks. so yeah, he’ll get coverage.
Don’t be terrified, just make sure you marry a man that has the maturity and intelligence to listen to your concerns. My husband and I have been married a long time and I was terrified of being a nag because my mother was the ultimate nag to everyone and I didn’t want to be like that so I bottled a lot of things up that really bothered me early on (stuff around the house that needed doing and so on). Then I’d blow up and we’d fight because that was what I had seen growing up. Then we both matured and now I can tell him…”Look I really would like you to fix that dripping faucet because it’s driving me crazy, so maybe this weekend you could pick up whatever parts you need.” And he does. Instead of “That faucet is still dripping. Are you ever going to fix it or just sit around on your lazy butt all weekend.” It’s a lot about respect and how you ask. But some men will say it’s nagging no matter what or how nicely a woman mentions it because they are just jerks.
Conversely, I know some women who throw tantrums and whine and get mad about things that the guy has no control over like being married to a guy in the army and then getting angry when he is deployed. That’s his job and he probably doesn’t want to be away either. So immaturity can go both ways.
But in Tom’s case I’m suprised because he isn’t like 21 years old anymore and you would hope he’s a little more mature in his interactions. Although I get the feeling Gisele can possibly be a little bossy…like wanting him to wear his hair a certain way because it’s more stylish when he hates it. If that’s the case then she needs to let some things go and let him wear what he likes, etc. So it could be him rebelling against that overall.
I agree, I consciously try not to nag and when I do ask Mr Lazy to do something, I usually put it in terms of please do this for me, it will make me very happy. I also pick my battles, it’s not worth fighting over every little thing, a home should always be a haven, not a place you avoid because someone is cranky with you all the time.
Just marry a man worthy of you, not a toddler like this guy. My husband and I never nag each other. Ever. We do have a thing we rarely use called “loving request for a behavior change,” when one of us is accidentally doing something annoying, for example, he asked me to put the phone back on the charger when I’m done instead of laying it down wherever I happen to be when the conversation is over so you had to hunt for it when it rang. A reasonable request, made politely, and with which I have complied ever since. But, generally, we don’t need to nag each other. I do what I’m supposed to do, usually, and same with him. If it didn’t get done, there was a reason, and the other one either takes up the slack and does it, or it just doesn’t get done until later. I don’t understand people who live to comment and nag and bitch at the other person like they own them. Who wants to live that way? Would you treat a friend like that? I guess I’m just really lucky that my husband is a grown up. I was really careful not to marry a total tool like I did the first time.
GNAT
You took my words out of my mouth, the whole comment lol
We don’t nag each other. However, with me born as a fiery minx, if I lose control…. Take cover because the nagging could become yelling lol just kidding!
I will recycle your “loving request for a behaviour change” when the need arises 🙂
+10000000
GoodnamesAll taken
Applause!
Meh. My husband and I nag each other, and it’s usually valid. Marriage isn’t just about the lovey-dovey stuff. It’s about the day to day stuff. You just have to nag respectfully and both realize that you (and your partner) aren’t perfect. As long as it’s a give and take dynamic, you can work things out. It’s when there’s an imbalance that it becomes a problem.
Yeah as I said above, my parents nag each other, they’ve been married 46 years and I think they have a successful marriage.
Really, overall, they have the marriage that I’d love to have.
They love each other a lot, but they do nag.
*shrugs*
Yeah, it depends on your personality. I can’t stand to be nagged, and neither can my husband, but some people just communicate that way. I didn’t mean to sound like our way was the only way.
Lol gnat… We don’t communicate that way. It just happens sometimes that we “get on” each other about things that the other does or hasn’t done. It’s usually done with a please and thank you, though every now and then it comes out snippy, as we all have bad days.
I guess I’m just willing to admit that we don’t have the perfect marriage, but we’ve been together for almost 20 years and still pretty darn happy, so I guess it works, even with the occasional nagging.
😉
It depends on personality too, I have a pair of friends, the “Bickersons” we call them and all they do is squabble and bicker with each other all the time. They’ve been happily married for 25 years now and have two beautiful children. I need a time-out after two hours with them, but they don’t notice. I could never live that way, my husband and I are super low key, but it works for them.
It’s just about finding a balance that works for you.
I’m a planner and super organized so I tend to get crazy about making lists and getting stuff done. I’ve had to learn to slow down, give my husband a list and just check in occasionally instead of bugging him to get it done right away.
In the end, he thanks me for it. I might get annoying but we have a good life thanks to my planning, budgeting etc. He really appreciates that I get him to take the initiative and have more follow through, as long as I force myself to not micromanage my partner lol
Yes, it’s good to rein in the need to clean, organize and micro-manage. I recognize those are my issues, my husband not only does not see the cobweb, he could care less that it’s on the chandelier in the dining room. I, meanwhile, notice and am figuring out which cleaning implement will work best to get at it and worrying about the dead bugs in the light fixture. We have different priorities, haha, not his fault or mine.
I hate nagging. I don’t feel good about riding my husband’s ass about things and he knows not to do it to me. It sounds like their relationship is kinda like a mommy thing. Life is too short for that crap. Be a partner or walk away.
Me either, Life is too short.
Exactly. I don’t want a son, I want a partner. He sounds like an ass. Well, they both do, actually.
I recall one of my neighbor’s , who married her boyfriend she had been dating for awhile, she would sit in our kitchen and chat with my mom and tell my mom once married she’d get him “up to speed”, she kept saying “she’d fix him”, work out the little Kinks with him. She basically told this guy when to move, how to move, how to drive, how to comb his hair and when! They were always bickering, she was always on top of this guy about the way he did the simplest daily things. She was a nice lady to friends and neighbors, but everyone hated going to their house or inviting them places, she spent the entire time seriously nitpicking her husband through dinners, barbeques, street community picnics,the nitpicking and nagging was awful.
Well she had a STROKE one day in the middle of bickering session with him on the front lawn about something about how he was mowing the lawn. (The doctors later said her blood pressure was getting so high it seemed from some stressful situation). My mom and the neighbors went over ,called the ambulance, got her to the hospital, helped him with getting his wife settled to hospital, etc. Then she had to go into rehab to work on getting part of her speech and movement back. While she was in rehab, the husband moved out, got his own apartment and left her. It was so sad. When she came home ,the neighbors and one of her sisters came to her home and helped her get herself well and together. The woman told my mom later after many months of therapy , healing and finally feeling better, …that LIFE was Too Short, to try feel she needed to FiX another person and what she had to do was fix herself, heal her own body and mind and to stay healthy. She gave her husband the divorce he wanted, she didn’t fight him. They both moved on. The woman later met a nice man, who she got on splendidly with, my mom said she never heard her trying to change the new man or ,fix him or ,work on him, they just seem to accept each other as they were..
Interesting story. I think I know all I need to know about the first husband by him not having the balls to ask for a divorce before she got sick. Had to wait until she was basically incapacitated. What a guy.
Does he mean she’s a nitpicking wifey and he’s old school henpecked? ( Or does he mean she’s a caring wife and partner? )
I Never cared much for Giselle. Always a bit of a cold vibe from her….but Gorgeous bod, great model, but never liked her personality much from what gets put out in the press anyway. Not sure what the real story is with her on a personal level, she could be a great warm,lady.
You know that… this is a case of two successful people where speaking just isn’t their thing. And, in fact, in their professions it isn’t really encouraged anyway.
This. Plus, I don’t think he is the sharpest tool in the box. . .
He’s actually a really intelligent guy. Far smarter than the average athlete.
You can’t be an NFL quarterback, let alone a successful one, without intelligence. To read a defense, choose a play and change options as defensive players are hurtling toward you takes quick thinking as well as athletic skill. He’s also a college graduate, FWIW. Maybe he’s just no good at being funny. Intelligence comes in many forms: social skills, problem solving, memorization, motor skills, etc. I see athletic skill as just another type of intelligence, and it doesn’t necessarily exclude the other types. Imagine having the focus of a golfer, who can sink a putt with a crowd and TV cameras all round? The idea that athletes are stupid is a stereotype that we need to put to bed.
I wonder if Gisele is amused; maybe Tom is just looking forward to make-up sex.
I agree, you have to have brains to be a successful pro QB, football is a chess match.
FML, this is my starting QB in my fantasy league this year? Grow a pair Tom.
Lol, who cares what he says, look at what he does on the field, that’s what counts in the league.
Bob? Don’t I know you from somewhere?
Well if you stopped doing the things that make us “do what wives do” then we wouldn’t have to “do what wives do” you pig.
Wow, I have no idea what her intelligence level is but it sounds like she married down, either way.
but he is SO HOT!
Didn’t he leave his pregnant/almost ready to deliver girlfriend for Gisele? As Maya Angelou said: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them”
I think you are a bit misinformed on this topic. Bridget and Tom were OVER when he started dating Gisele and months later she announced she was pregnant. Basically, Bridget got pregnant when they were over , who knows if it was on purpose as a way to save the relationship. But Gisele had nothing to do with it.
Tom and Bridget broke up, he started dating Gisele almost right away, and then Bridget found out she was pregnant. The scuttlebutt in Boston is that this was Bridget’s band-aid baby — she knew Tom was out the door but he had always wanted kids, so she thought this would make him stay. Of course, this is from my sister in Boston, who is a huge NE fan. (??? We’re from Chicago!!)
@theblowersdaughter, yes, that was the scuttlebutt at the time. The break up took months with lots of arguments and scenes in public places and then they tried to reconcile over Thanksgiving but it didn’t work and they were over before Christmas. He has never said a bad word about Bridget in the local media, although she initially insisted that she would not let him be part of Jack’s life. They’ve worked all that out and Jack spends lots of time here with Tom and Giselle.
“Almost ready to dellver”? Far from it. He and Bridget Monahan broke up around Thanksgiving/early December. He started withh Giselle in February. The baby was born in late August/early December. They were breaking up for months and the baby was conceived towards the end of the breakup. She only revealed she was pregnant at the end of the first trimester, around the time he started with Giselle
I’m a woman and I agree with this comments. Women do complain and nag way more than men do. Even in these comments women are nagging about what Tom Brady said, it must have some truth too it.
i agree. and the irritating part is that they’re speaking as though men are babies who can’t think for themselves to justify the nagging and seem to think him saying she nags means he doesn’t like when he criticizes her. it’s very annoying and petty.
I wonder if she’s blushing… I would personally put this kind of sarcasm where it belongs, in the locker room amongst males who bond over this stuff, or on a therapist’s couch. What a jerk! Lots of people will remember this passive-aggressive statement after their divorce (mark my words), and in their business, that’s just not fair.
Most of the things I “get on my husband” for would be solved if we had millions of dollars. Handy man type things. Financial advisor type things. Unlimited amounts of money would make a lot of that go away. But I suppose money makes for different issues. (Hubby goes gambling for the night and loses 1 million in a few hours). mo’ money, mo’ problems???
Excellent point. My husband and I wouldn’t nag each other (we’re equal opportunity naggers) about cleaning the kitchen, weeding, or vacuuming if we had a staff to do that for us!
the entire “wives are nags, haha, us poor men” dynamic is really old and tired. i wish it would go away.
Ha! Well, men in general, but especially successful men, are still socialized to think managing the house and kids is not their problem. When they step up and become full partners, that dynamic will go away. Nice thought, huh?
you’re right. i just hate the way that dynamic is framed. instead of “maybe i should do XYZ, then my partner wouldn’t have to ask me to do it,” these guys see their women as nagging (or at least portray them as such). i am not sure that the framing of that would alter even if guys who complain about women nagging would become full partners. i know several guys who are full partners, but when they are in a social setting, they feel like it’s somehow socially expected of them to complain about their wives, the wives’ nagging, etc. it’s degrading to all parties involved, and infuriating to me as a woman.
I totally agree with you, Ag!
“I can be who I am without having to be polite ….”
Aha, the friendly Neanderthal next doors
Neanderthal – now that’s funny. But Gisele will hopefully not pin it on him in public!
I don’t like how he says “that’s just what wives do”. I don’t do that crap. I don’t consider my husband someone I need to order around. I respect him and consider it an honor to be his partner. Sure we need to decide who does what, it’s a conversation between two adults .
The only reason I would ever have to “get on him” would be if he was immature and unwilling to pull his weight. Mr Brady should stop making such sweeping comments.
agreed. my husband is an adult and a partner in our marriage. neither one of us is a child to be told what to do. brady, and people who make similar statements, are ridiculous in my book.
Well, it’s nice to hear someone just talk regular about marriage, obviouslym in love with his wife, but not some picture perfect soundbites for interviews nor the perfect husband.
+This!
Everytime I read about them I get the feeling their relationship has an odd dynamic. I think I’ve read more complaints than compliments when it comes to them talking about each other.
I dislike him as he’s a U of M wolverine and plays for the Patriots and that curmudgeon Belichick- I’m a Buckye and Carolina Panthers fan 🙂 I don’t nag my hubby much but he is forgetful at times- one point of disagreement is if I suggest a contractor to come make repairs vs him doing it himself-usually a pro is faster and causes less hassle,or if a contractor he calls is slow to return a call and I suggest a competitor he gets irate,sigh. I love him but there are days that drive me crazy
I can’t stand either one of them. Walking stereotypes. “Duh, I”m a man-boy”. She’s the henpecker. How do you say henpecker in 5 languages? If I was G i’d be pissed at him making me sound like some frowsy fishwife and for making himself sound like…well-himself. What, are they Roseann &Dan now? Whatevs.
This s*** gets so exhausting.
wow, i am amazed that so many people don’t know how marriage plays out. that is the sound of a very happily married man. a secretly unhappily married dude would be telling you how fabulous his wife was. (he will follow that up by hitting on the nearest female.) when the relationship is solid you can wink at it a little.
i laughed at that quote because that’s how all content husbands talk. guys are a little, well, oblivious. women keep them civilized. smart men know & appreciate this. everybody wins.
i also appreciate his candor about angling for attention. since he knows it’s immature, it’s actually not.
Amen, Irene. I side eye anyone who says their marriage is perfect. Doth protesting too much and all….
I agree.
I agree, Irene. I always read her interviews and she said he is not just her husband, he is her FRIEND. If there’s something wrong, they will talk about it. They look so happy.
“also appreciate his candor about angling for attention. since he knows it’s immature, it’s actually not.” I agree and I think it’s very cute.
Hence the offensive trend in advertising of portraying hapless males needing to be organized by their competent eye rolling wives.
+1!!!
I think that power differentials between the sexes are in flux. I wonder how it would be if women controlled the conversations about power.
They are both so beautiful
I’m more interested in that last paragraph
What in the heII is he talking about?
he sounds like an uneducated buffoon
I don’t like her and I don’t like him either…they’re both idiots
Why nag? Don’t they have like a biz zillion dollars to pay people to do all their shit for them and clean it up to? And they have people to manage their servants and staff too. Most likely its hard for these two super egos to live with each other.
Theirs is obvious a highly intellectual union! Oh man, he sounds so dumb!