“While I was still cooking, cleaning, shopping, managing at the store, I was doing it as a businesswoman, not a wife,” she explained in the book. “My responsibilities made it impossible for me to even think about anything else. There was no expectation about who got home from work first and what they should do, because I never got home from work!”
But the pair, determined to make their marriage work, agreed to counseling.
“We talked, we listened, and more important, we heard each other when we aired our concerns,” Ina recalled. “Moving forward, we could be equals who took care of each other. It wouldn’t happen overnight, but if we worked toward the same goal, we could change things together.”
Now nearly six decades into their marriage, the two are still smitten.
“She’s the center of my life,” Jeffrey said of his wife and resident bartender of 56 years on 60 Minutes. “She’s actually the font of an enormous amount of fun. And she is the center of the home. That’s what she is to me.”
For more candid confessions from the stars, read on.
