Not exactly the ideal relationship portrayed.
Via NY Post:
Barbara Bush nearly committed suicide in the 1970s during an episode of crippling depression sparked by her husband’s affair with an aide, a new biography reveals.
“She would pull over to the side of the road until the impulse to plow into a tree or drive into the path of an oncoming car had passed,” writes author Susan Page in “The Matriarch,” out Tuesday, a book based on hours of interviews with the former first lady.
“I really wasn’t brave enough to do that,” Bush said. “But that’s why I pulled over, so I wouldn’t do that, or I wouldn’t run into another car.”