The story of Joe and his wife Jill Biden before politics: "He proposed to me five times"
Joe Biden was elected by vote as the new president of the United States and won the electoral race from Republican and current President Donald Trump.
Much has been made of the scandals involving his son Hunter Biden and the impact of this news on the Democrat's campaign. However, his relationship with his wife Jill Biden, according to Vogue magazine, is enviable, healthy and long-lasting.
He has been married to Dr. Jill Biden for 39 years. And his love story has not been a simple fairytale romance. Sometimes he has suffered unthinkable tragedies, but they have made a life together, despite the anguish.
Joe Biden lost his first wife, college sweetheart Neilia Biden, and his 1-year-old daughter, Naomi, when a truck collided with his truck in 1972.
In a Yale commencement speech, Biden said, “Six weeks later my whole world was forever altered. While in Washington hiring, I received a phone call. My wife and three children were Christmas shopping, a truck with a trailer hit them and killed my wife and killed my daughter. And they weren't sure that my other two children could live. "The children spent months in the hospital and Biden swore there, he goes on to say," The incredible bond I have with my children is the gift I'm not sure I would have had if not I would have been through what I went through ... But by concentrating on my children, I found my redemption. "
Three years later, the vice president's brother introduced him to Jill Jacobs.
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Biden has said that he believes Neilia somehow brought them together. The couple went on their first date when Jill, who had also been married before, was still in college. Jill told Vogue: "I was a senior, and I'd been hanging out with guys in jeans, clogs, and T-shirts, he came to the door and he had a sports coat and loafers, and I thought, 'God, this never goes. to happen, not in a million years' He was nine years older than me! But we went out to see 'A Man and a Woman' in the theater in Philadelphia, and we really got along. When we got home ... hand, and good night. I went upstairs and called my mother at 1:00 am and said, 'Mom, I finally met a gentleman.
However, it was not easy at all. Joe Biden proposed several times before Jill finally agreed, "He proposed to me five times and I said not yet. Not yet. Not yet. 'Because at that point, of course, I had fallen in love with the boys, and I really felt like This marriage had to work. Because they had lost their mother and he couldn't allow them to lose another mother. So he had to be 100 percent sure. "
Joe remembers giving Jill an ultimatum, saying, "Look, this is the last time I ask you. I don't care when we get married. But I want an engagement." And she said it was okay. But it took that! "
They were united in nuptials on June 17, 1977 in New York, in the chapel of the United Nations, mass officiated by a Catholic priest. The ceremony was attended by about 40 of their closest family and friends, and Biden's children, Beau and Hunter, stood by the couple's side at the altar.
Afterwards, there was a reception luncheon. The family of four then embarked on a honeymoon together because according to Joe and Jill, they were all getting married, which is pretty much the nicest thought of all.
Now this steadfast couple is heading to the White House. Biden will become the new president of the United States on January 20 and Jill the first lady.
