Donald and Melania Trump are the poster couple of the lovesick hypothesis that claims opposites attract.
Their polar personalities may actually be the key to their relationship’s success.
Another quality that has kept the Trumps' relationship going is that they let each other be.
“I don’t want to change him,” Melania told Harper’s Bazaar.
“And he doesn’t want to change me.”
Even as Trump became the first former president to be indicted, Melania maintained her quietly supportive role.
“That’s what she does.
They are a family.”
Let’s take a closer look at how the couple’s relationship began, and where it stands.
It was a glitzy turn from how Trump began the decade: in debt.
As business accelerated through the decade, though, the gains that came in were excessive.
By the time she was 26 years old, Melania had reached New York.
She acquired what were, as she toldGQ, some of “the best catalogs” at the time.
In 1998, everything changed.
“It was a great chemistry and energy,” Melania told King.
“And, you know, something was there right away,” she added.
Melania ended up turning the tables on him instead of giving him her number, she asked for his.
Their first date was a night out in New York.
His first marriage to Czech modelIvana Trumphad lasted about a decade and the couple welcomed three children together.
Trump and Ivana divorced in 1990, with the businessman marrying Marla soon after.
They became parents to one daughter.
Unfortunately, things came full circle for Marla, whose own marriage to Trump was short-lived.
They separated just four years after tying the knot.
Though Marla later expressed sentimentality towards Trump, their divorce in 1999 wasn’t a simple affair.
It’s a thing of beauty," he said.
From feeling up Melania in public to groping other women nothing was off-limits for the two men.
In late 1999, Trump threw his hat in the ring as a candidate from the then-new Reform Party.
His audacious bid was only in its exploratory stages, but Trump spoke with trademark conviction.
His girlfriend seemed to agree.
“I would be very traditional, like Jackie Kennedy and Betty Ford,” she toldABC News.
But all was not well in paradise.
“She will be missed,” Trump plainly toldThe New York Times.
“We were apart for a few months, not long,” Melania later confirmed toDuJour.
When they got back together, it was for good.
In 2004, Trump sealed the deal by putting a$2 million ringon Melania’s finger.
Trump’s net worth was being recorded in billions, and so his nuptials were predictably no small affair.
“Oh, don’t worry about her,” he reportedly told Daniels.
She added, “It is not a concern and focus of mine.”
At 58, he said he still quite liked the idea of fathering another child.
The Trump penthouse was a conventional domestic frontier with the breadwinning husband and homemaking wife.
As Melania told Parenting.com, the new mom ensured that traditional gender roles were kept intact.
She, however, remained committed to her primary role of raising the couple’s son, Barron.
In the background, the thrum of Trump’s presidential aspiration was becoming louder.
In 2016, the newsworthy businessman came up as theRepublican Party’s front-running candidate.
It was not an act she was described as quite the recluse, even behind the scenes.
“I don’t know any couple that spends as much time apart.
… She is a loner.
He is a loner.
Even as half of America turned against Donald Trump, his ever-loyal wife aired contrarian views.
Melania seems supportive of Donald Trump’s political comeback
Are the Trumps returning to the White House?
Alarge part of the United Stateswouldn’t be thrilled at the prospect possibly including Melania Trump.
