Mike Tindallis opening up about his relationship with his wifeZara Tindall— and how he’s willing to renew their vows after10 years of marriage.
“When you have children, that is a massive shock, change to your system that you’ve never experienced and there is going to be those rocky roads.
“There are things that are thrown at you that have to test both of you and that will test that relationship,” he continued. “The thing is no one is right, no one is wrong. You have to work through it together.”
“It was like six months where I really didn’t know sort of where I wanted to go. Zara would probably say it was more like a year,” said Mike.
“It is difficult,” he continued. “I went to work every year for 17 years with 35 to 40 of my best mates. I just used to hang around with them, be like typical blokes all day, every day, and then, one day, you wake up and - if you haven’t planned for the future - you wake up and your next six months isn’t planned. It’s not on your fridge, so your wife can see it.
“Suddenly you’re like ‘well actually I don’t need to get out of bed today. I don’t need to go to the gym.’ And suddenly it’s quite a lonely place to be. And it doesn’t matter how successful your career is.”
He added, “People think ‘Oh you’ve had such a good career in your sport’ and just think you can walk right on, but it’s more about you mentally not being prepared for that.”
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Another thing that Mike wasn’t prepared for was the unexpectedly special bond he’s created with his children at the family home he shares with wife Zara on Princess Anne’s Gatcombe Park Estate in rural Gloucestershire.
“I was really keen on having a boy but then Mia came along,” said Mike about the arrival of his eldest child. “By the time Lena came I wasn’t bothered if I had another girl because I’d had this little bundle of joy in Mia. It was happy days.”
“The third was very fast,” he added about the recent - and sudden - arrival of son Lucas on March 21, who was delivered on the floor of the couple’s bathroom after Zara’s water broke.
source: people.com
