Biden and his wife resolve their family differences by texting
US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill.
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When US President Joe Biden and his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, disagree on certain family matters, they don't do it verbally, but instead, Gill says, they text messages to resolve their differences so that others won't hear them.
The first lady told Harper's Bazaar in an interview that her divorce from her first husband taught her to be independent and that she taught this lesson to her daughter and granddaughters.
She says her teenage granddaughter may soon share a room for some time at the White House.
When Joe Biden was vice president, the couple also decided to settle differences by text message to avoid arguing over the presence of their Secret Service agents, and they called this consensual method “fixting,” the combination of texting and visking.
On one occasion, after she texted him in a fit of rage, Biden jokingly told her, "You do realize this is going to go down in the books, there will be a record of that."
In fact, she says, presidential communications remain in the historical record.
She told her interlocutor, "I won't tell you what we called him at that time."
The First Lady appears on the cover of the June and July issue, which is available on newsstands on June 7.
The magazine says it is the first time in the magazine's 155-year history that an American first lady has been featured prominently.
Jill Biden was 18 years old when she married her first husband.
But by her mid-20s, she was divorced and living alone for the first time in her life.
This breakup dealt her a strong emotional blow because she was expressing her admiration for her parents' marriage and believed that she would have a marriage as long as theirs.
She finished college and became a teacher.
"I knew I would never put myself in this situation again (ie marriage), but I didn't feel that I had the financial resources to be on my own, and that I had to get the money through the divorce settlement," she told the magazine.
"I kept insisting on my daughter Ashley and my granddaughters that they be independent and be able to stand on their own two feet," she said.
Jill Biden met then-Senator Joe Biden in 1975, and they married two years later.
She continued to teach throughout his ascent in national politics, eventually becoming the first lady to hold a paid job outside the White House.
And the twice-weekly teaching schedule at Northern Virginia Community College seemed to fit her responsibilities as first lady.
She says her granddaughter Naomi is engaged and plans to organize her wedding at the White House in November.
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