Ina Garten opens up about a rocky period in her marriage for the first time: "I just hit the pause button"
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00:00In the book, there's something you've never shared before, that you did separate from Jeffrey for a very brief time.
00:04I write cookbooks, so it's never been something I'd ever had any reason to share.
00:08And I kind of, I've known women since then who have found that they couldn't kind of change their relationships from husband and wife to partners.
00:19And remember, in the 70s, that's what Jeffrey expected. He expected that he was marrying a wife.
00:25And I don't know why, just those things kind of chafed, you know, that it was expected that I would make dinner.
00:32That it was, there were certain things that were expected, that he would pay the bills.
00:36That there were certain roles that we played, and I found them really annoying.
00:41And I couldn't quite get through, and I felt that if I just hit the pause button, that I would get his attention.
00:49And thank God I did. Thank God.