Vice President JD Vance made a strange marriage confession regarding his “obsession” with wife Usha Chilukuri Vance.
Vance reveals in his upcoming memoir ‘Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith’ that he became complete obsessed with his future wife while still in a long-distance relationship with his college girlfriend, a woman he identifies only as Mary.
“For a couple of years during and after college, I’d dated a girl named Mary. She was sweet, and she wanted the same things out of life that I did: a nice house, a decent job and a couple of kids,” Vance wrote.
“My family got along with her fine. No relationship is perfect, but nothing seemed like a deal breaker.”
But Vance said something was missing.
“Still, I could never escape the feeling that, as much as I liked her, if she were to dump me the next day, I’d get over it quickly,” Vance wrote. “Would I sob if she broke up with me? No way. Isn’t that a problem?”
A few months later, Vance said he was a first-year student at Yale Law School when everything changed.
“I was walking late at night on an unusually cold and rainy fall day. New Haven is spooky in the fog, and the rain had emptied out the streets. And the whole time I was thinking about another student: Usha Bala Chilukuri,” he wrote.
He called a friend and came clean.
“‘Dude, I think I’m obsessed with this chick in my small group. It’s unhealthy,'” Vance claimed he told his friend.
He said Usha was “smarter than everyone” and had “the most amazing posture.” His verdict to his friends was delivered without hesitation.
“‘I will marry this girl,’ I told my friends. ‘Or I will be a lifelong bachelor.'”
He married her in 2014. They held both a Christian and a Hindu ceremony.
Vance released the excerpt himself on Mother’s Day, turning the confession into a public love letter.
“This is a particularly special Mother’s Day in the Vance clan, as Usha is about to become a mom for the fourth time,” he posted on X. “We thought it would be fun to put out a little excerpt from my new book about the early days of our relationship. To all the moms out there, but especially to Usha: Happy Mother’s Day!”
The couple has navigated their share of differences. Usha was a registered Democrat until at least 2014 before shifting her affiliation and voting in the 2022 Republican primary.
Vance, who converted to Catholicism, has said he hopes she will “see things as I do” on faith someday, though the two have agreed to raise their children as Christians.
Their fourth child is expected soon.