Tom Brady admitted that his job was getting in the way of his marriage. The quarterback had committed deeply to his work for the New England Patriots, and it was showing in unfortunate ways as a husband and a parent.
It left Brady and his wife Gisele in a bad place. Gisele penned Brady what he called a “heartfelt letter,” which Brady still has and reads to this day.
“She wasn’t satisfied with our marriage, so I needed to make a change in that,” Brady told Howard Stern on Sirius XM on Wednesday. “Her point was, ‘Of course this works for you. It all works for you. But it doesn’t work for me.’ … The point of a relationship is that it has to work for both.”
Brady explained a situation where he wasn’t contributing in the ways he should. And so he had to scale back his contributions to football in order to be a better father and a better husband. Brady, of course, was doggedly pursing his goals to continue winning Super Bowls. But in turn, Gisele’s ambitions took a backseat. Apparently, that wasn’t working for the humanitarian and retired supermodel.
“A couple years ago, she didn’t feel like I was doing my part for the family,” Brady said. “She felt like I was playing football all season, and she would take care of the house. And then all of the sudden the season would end and I would say, ‘Let me get into my business projects. Let me get into my football training.’ And she’s sitting there and saying, ‘Well when are you going to take care of the house? When are you going to take the kids to school?’ And that was a big part of our marriage that I had to check myself, because she has goals and dreams, too.”
Brady scaled back his offseason work by electing to skip the voluntary workouts during the offseason with the Patriots. Even more so, Brady signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this offseason, a team that’s notoriously lax, especially when compared to the Patriots. It seems family is taking a greater priority for Brady as he wraps up his football career.
