Volleyball star Gabrielle Reece and pro surfer Laird Hamilton have been married for 17 years, and Reece recently revealed the controversial secret to their successful relationship: creating an old fashioned dynamic.
In appearances on the Today show and Rock Center With Brian Williams Friday, Reece explained that she and Hamilton considered divorcing after four years of marriage. But their relationship improved when they learned how to complement each other by adopting more traditional gender roles.
“I think the idea of living with a partner is ‘How can I make their life better?' Reece told Today's Natalie Morales. “So if I’m the woman and he’s the man, then yes, that’s the dynamic. I’m willing and I choose to serve my family and my husband because it creates a dynamic where he is then in fact acting more like a man and masculine and treating me the way I want to be treated.
Reece recently wrote a memoir called My Foot Is Too Big For The Glass Slipper, in which she claims, “to truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and –- look out, here it comes –- submissive.”
