Bridget Macron

Babamaman

Who cares

Well, quite a few on GN apparently, as we are into 5 pages.

Oops, no, 6 pages.

I don't know what went on, it's a weird relationship.

They have nt been married that long 8 years I wrongly presumed longer … just to be pedantic it wasn’t a slap or a punch it was a push perhaps she was aiming for his
shoulder !!! Giving her the benefit of the doubt
I can imagine him saying something like ‘keep up’ or ‘get a move on the doors are opening’ and she went to shove his shoulder in a protest and it all went wrong from there
She always seems to look quite miserable
It’s a shame for them he was in the public eye at the time maybe nothing, but now made into something

For anyone interested, Macron has infact written his own autobiography which includes the relationship with Brigitte. It's called Révolution, I think it might be available in English too.

Just for the record the Macrons married in 2007 so they've been married 17/18 years, although he was close to her when in school he moved to Paris to study and she remained married and in Amiens. I can't find any evidence that they had a sexual relationship until much later when they got together again when he was 27, having finished his studies. People might find it odd for people to have a relationship with someone much older or much younger but it's not that unusual and having a strong attraction to another person doesn't mean you will end up in bed. Has anyone considered that Macron fell in love with Brigitte and that she refused to let the relationship go anywhere whilst he was so young? I certainly know what happened and I don't think anyone on this forum does either.

Yes people have a range of justifications for this behaviour, it often is excused in celebrities, etc. It is very difficult for those of us in safeguarding.

I agree Galaxy I've been the safeguarding governor in a school so I know a little bit about what it entails but there does need to be evidence of wrong doing or every teacher who has a schoolboy or schoolgirl with a crush on them would be guilty. My point is absolutely about "evidence" of wrong doing. I honestly don't know if there was wrong doing, there was a suspicion of it but I genuinely can't find any evidence if there was, I can't help thinking that it would have been dug up by now and have been splashed all over the media both in France and Internationally. I missed out the "don't" in the first line of my last post but hopefully it was still understood. I do not in any way condone inappropriate behaviour in any educational setting but there does need to be evidence.

It's ok foxie, it's just I suppose my worry is sometimes ( I am not suggesting you) there is a temptation to 'excuse' behaviour from women and also from politicians on the side we favour if you know what I mean.

I sometimes find in life, that peoples' standards of acceptable behaviour, are lower in some people, than in others.

I remember Sadiq Khan finding a certain level of knife crime in london acceptable, when others are horrified.

I think the Macrons are quite careful clever at describing their early relationship too.
I remember Brigitte saying, that at school Macron wasn't like the other boys. She said he wasn't like a teenager, and that she was "captivated" by him. However, no one knows to what extent.

Perhaps he wasn't like other teenagers, perhaps he showed exceptional talent, was exceptionally focused, who knows? According to the Guardian she said she was captivated by his intelligence.

Indeed, they were both lovers of literature and apparently spent time together discussing 19th century French Romanticism.

In an article linked earlier in this thread, her daughter talked abiut how difficult her mother’s relationship with Macron was to her teenage children.

Jealousy ?

Sky News Report.
news.sky.com/story/classroom-crush-to-face-push-key-moments-in-the-macrons-relationship-13375323
It’s interesting to note that the age difference between the Macrons is the same as between the Trumps.

Yes, and Macron was the same age as Melania when the relationship (allegedly) started after he'd finished his studies ie 27 and Melania met Trump.

So this couple had a disagreement- hardly unusual in a relationship? In fact, pretty commonplace….

Disagreements in a relationship aren't unusual it's true ronib shoving the other one in the face albeit with a flat hand should be.

BlueBelle

Well I m sure we ll never know, and I m sure it’s not what he said it was, and I m also sure it’s not the first time. She must be quite a confident woman and he must have made a big faux par to sock her husband in a public place, like she did 😱
I d have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they got into a private place.

I can't agree with you, here, sorry.

In my opinion a confident woman would have ignored whatever another person did wrong in public, and told him off about it as soon as they were alone.

And surely, the only excuse for hitting someone is that they were offering one violence?

Anything else could have been dealt with by just walking away, surely?

I've just had a long lunch with French friends here in France. It's a national holiday today, so round the table there was a mixture of ages/professions.

Their opinion was that the couples' argument itself didn't really bother them, but that the blatant cover up and denial by the Élysée Palace was shameful. They see it as yet another exemple of untruths and poor communication from Macron.

I have been surprised by this thread.

I had assumed there would be overwhelming almost horror. But no.

Has left me wondering what goes on behind closed doors of even people I know.

Thankfully, only one, family abuse situation, has come to light, amongst anyone I know.
The lady concerned drew the line at her kids witnessing it, so told people. Even her own family had no idea. They were horrified at what had really been going on.

fancythat, domestic abuse crosses all society. Police, probation, social workers will know wealthy, successful, professionals, teachers, doctors, social workers, health workers etc as well as the classic chaotic families most often associated with violent domestic abuse. People are very good at hiding, denying, minimising - just as we’ve seen comments on here doing exactly that.

You are correct.