Oprah why not married

Oprah Winfrey has revealed why she never married her partner, despite them being together for more than 30 years. In an essay published in O Magazine , the media mogul opened up about her relationship with Stedman Graham , who proposed in The year-old said that there is a good reason the couple never tied the knot, admitting that she had doubts shortly after they got engaged.

My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it. The rest, of course, is history. In , the moment after I said yes to his proposal, I had doubts," she confessed. I wanted to be asked. I wanted to know he felt I was worthy of being his missus, but I didn't want the sacrifices, the compromises, the day-in-day-out commitment required to make a marriage work. My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it.

And because we share all the values that matter integrity being No. And because we relish seeing the other fulfill and manifest their destiny and purpose. According to Winfrey, even though Graham proposed after a few years of dating, she didn't feel that getting married would be feasible with the overwhelming demands of hosting her own show.

I realized I didn't actually want a marriage. I wanted to be asked," Winfrey wrote. My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it. Winfrey added that she and Graham can both now agree that had they gotten married at the time, they "would not still be together. Winfrey previously discussed her decision to not marry or have kids in an interview with People , where she said she was working hour days at The Oprah Winfrey Show and enjoyed being able to come home after a long day without the extra demands of being a wife or mother.

Those girls fill that maternal fold that I perhaps would have had. My life with the show was my priority, and we both knew it. Winfrey said she has a "spiritual partnership" with Graham, one where her partner was able to create an identity and purpose outside of being "Oprah's man.

Winfrey also recalled thinking Graham was a "player" during one of their first encounters. He was polite, yes, and kind. The sort of guy who sits with an ailing friend. Tall and handsome, for sure. But actually too handsome, I thought, to be interested in me," she wrote.