Barack Obama is speaking openly about his relationship with his wife, Michelle Obama, and some of their problems as a couple.

On Thursday, the former president was talking to students at Hamilton College. He told the crowd he had “many problems with my wife” after being president for 8 years.

He also said… “I have been trying to enjoy myself a bit more.”

Obama spoke about his marriage to Michelle when he answered a question from Steven Tepper, the President of Hamilton College. Steven asked Barack what he had been doing recently.

He said that most of his time is taken up by his Obama Foundation and that he is working on the second half of his presidential memoirs, which he joked were “like 50 term papers”.

The Obamas have been married since 1992, but they haven’t been seen out together much this year, even though Barack says he’s trying to do fun stuff with Michelle.

In March, we saw Barack at a Los Angeles Clippers basketball game and out to dinner in L.A. without Michelle, and she wasn’t with him at Jimmy Carter’s funeral or Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration.