There is no place more sacred than the home and the interaction between spouses. Outsiders have very little place in commenting on anything, really, unless the marriage itself starts to impact third parties outside the home. At that point, the couple has brought their relationship to the public and one is free to engage with it or ignore it.

It is impossible to ignore the ongoing tension between Kellyanne Conway and her husband, George. Whether they sleep in the same bed is utterly irrelevant (as it always is in relationships), it is how they even function as co-parents that is something worth pondering.

During an interview on CNN with Michael Smerconish, what had been a fairly run of the mill book promotion turned… weird. Kellyanne just went off on George in front of all of us:

You know, in 2016, known as the year of the tweet, George Conway sent zero tweets. Now he’s sent over 100,000. He can change his mind about Donald Trump, this is a free country, George has no allegiance to a political party or presidential candidate but his vows to me I feel were broken because we were all in.

Kellyanne, hold up. Many spouses believe that their partner broke their vows. That person then has the choice, does this disavowal warrant divorce, therapy, simply letting it die, or anything in between. What many people do not do is go on national television to air it out.

You know, I also write in the book, Michael, that people like to say without Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump would not have gotten elected president of the United States, that’s debatable.

“But without George Conway urging, if not insisting me, his wife, to take that campaign management job and helping out with more with the kids and home, I don’t see how I could be the campaign manager the level I was. George was my partner.”

Smerconish asked, appropriately: “Did you ever say, George, what the hell are you doing here?”

“I did and that’s in the book,” Kellyanne answered aggressively.

“All I got was a steady diet of ‘Trump, Trump, Trump.’ I will tell you that I know he’s billed differently now, but for the three years, he was mentioned 48 times by the New York Times. He was mentioned 45 of the 48 times as, quote, ‘Kellyanne Conway’s husband.’ We should be honest about how everybody came to know him and that he became some kind of resistance folk hero but not at a small cost.”

HANG ON. George Conway was a powerhouse lawyer long before anyone knew the name Kellyanne Conway. It is true that few outside of the “Insiders” knew him, but the very same thing could be said of Kellyanne.

And then she just became incomprehensible:

“I feel that I should have known ahead of time if this thing called the Lincoln Project was going to exist there were going to be ads, dumping an op-ed the next day, his tweets are going to be about my boss.

“Again, just so your viewers who are saying ‘why did you have her on? I turned off the TV,’ although they didn’t or are reading online, they should know that George — I feel like I was owed an explanation. And this is not the situation, I gave up millions of dollars to go be a public servant in the White House. George wanted to have a big job in the Trump administration. We moved our family to Washington as a family. He changed his mind about Donald Trump somewhere along the way. Famously, Donald Trump never changes. I didn’t change my mind.”

Kellyanne? No one cares… Couples deal with existential crises far bigger than yours, as important as the media coverage may make it seem to you, at least you know that the bills will be paid and the kids will be fed. So, please, do everyone a favor and “take it inside.”

Smerconish had to then end the interview rather uncomfortable interview, but anything to get Kellyanne to stop talking is good.

To make things worse, a CNN producer began putting up tweets asking why they even had Kellyanne on the air, and Smerconish batted them away, telling the producers to take them down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Ef9lDX8b8

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman