"It was 2touch and go for a while."
"It's so nice to have you both in the same room together."
"I know because when we aren't, folks think we're divorced."
For months, 3speculation about their marriage has 4run rampant, 5fueled 6in part by the former president's appearances without his wife by his side, including President Donald Trump's second 7inauguration.
"People couldn't believe that I was saying no for any other reason that they had to assume that my marriage was 8falling apart."
Now, for the first time, the Obamas are 9speaking out together on the former first lady's podcast to 10shoot down those rumors of divorce.
"These are the kinds of things that I just miss, right? So I don't even know this stuff's going on. And then somebody will mention it to me and I'm all like, what are you talking about?"
"There hasn't been one moment in our marriage where I thought about 11quitting my man. And we've 12had some really hard times. So we had to have had a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures and I have become a better person because of the man I'm married to."
"OK, Don't, don't make me cry now. Right at the beginning of the show."
The Obamas met in 1989, working at a law firm in Chicago.
They married three years later and had two daughters.
Their marriage 13thrust into the public spotlight as his 14political ambitions carried them to the White House.
