Why Barbara Bush's 73-Year Marriage Was a Silent Hell

For 73 years she was called the most beloved First Lady in America. What almost no one saw was the woman who once pulled her car to the side of the road because she wasn't sure she could keep driving. Barbara Bush married George H.W. Bush in January 1945 and stayed married to him until her death in 2018 — the longest presidential marriage in American history. On the surface: pearls, warmth, a house full of children and grandchildren. Underneath: 29 moves across 17 cities, a husband who was gone for months at a time, a daughter buried at three years old, and a depression so severe she later admitted she couldn't tell anyone about it — not even him. This is the story of what that marriage cost her, and why she carried most of it alone.