Was Paul McCartney's Marriage To Linda Really That Happy, And Was His Marriage To Heather Really That Bad?
I remember reading about this when it first surfaced, but I filed it in the back of my mind and didn't recall it until the other day. Was Sir Paul's marriage to Linda really as happy as it was always assumed to be? It would seem that Linda McCartney wrote a vegetarian cookbook with literary agent Peter Cox, and in the course of it made some 19 tapes in which she admitted her depression and frustration when it came to dealing with her high-profile marriage to Sir Paul:
"There were moments when Linda would feel deeply unhappy about her marriage," Cox said."In her low moments, the idea of leaving him did cross her mind, but she immediately rejected it.
"Her family was the most important thing in her life and there was no way she'd give them up. At the low points, she did feel trapped."
It seems that Sir Paul was an exacting husband, wanting his wife's total attention and devotion:
Linda found it easier to accept being bossed around by McCartney rather than confront him.Of course, Paul had charm, was clever and interesting, sometimes rather soulful, even.
And no one is suggesting he was not a kind and affectionate husband.
But once the honeymoon had passed, Linda was to discover that she had married a complicated person who was self-absorbed, rather arrogant, prone to black moods, and with a not particularly well developed sense of humour.
His possessiveness, flattering at the outset, eventually led to friends observing that she seemed like a 'caged animal'.
All in all, McCartney was not a man who was easy to be married to.
So was Linda happy? "Sometimes yes, sometimes no," says a friend. "It was like any marriage - it had its ups and downs and it became a habit.
"But it wasn't the big fairytale.'
To summarize a somewhat lengthy article, it would seem that marriage to Sir Paul wasn't the glorious experience that so many have tried to make it out to be; however, while Linda did sometimes chafe and rebel against the restrictions put up by her rather demanding husband, she determined that when it all came down to it, her marriage was worth the effort, and she was determined to make it work. While there were a couple of times in the marriage when she did leave, she always returned, because her marriage and her family were very important to her. Continued on the next page
