Melania Trump’s Perfect Marriage

The First Lady has done what few wives do — given herself space

Vicki Larson
4 min readDec 3, 2019

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No matter how you feel about Trump, many people wonder about his wife, Melania. Is she truly happy? Is she just waiting for the right moment to divorce? What did her “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” parka really mean? Does she really need to be rescued, as the #FreeMelania meme suggested? Mostly, why does she sleep apart from her husband?

Although their sleeping arrangement has been discussed before, it’s still among the “oddities” of their marriage according to a new, just-released unauthorized biography about the First Lady, “Free, Melania.”As reported in the New York Times, their presumably odd sleeping arrangement is among the top takeaways of the book:

While the president sleeps in the master bedroom on the second level of the White House residence — he requested a lock for his door — Mrs. Trump stays on the third floor, in the two-room space formerly occupied by Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, Bennett reports.

Is it all that odd to want to sleep apart from your partner?

Sleep divorce

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Vicki Larson

Award-winning journalist, author of “Not Too Old For That" & "LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work, coauthor of “The New I Do,”