laying professional football as a quarterback means you’re often faced with huge men looking to tackle you to the floor, so they can’t be afraid of much, right? Not according to Tom Brady, who reportedly feared divorcing Gisele Bundchen after 13 years of marriage.
Bundchen, the mother of his two children Benjamin and Vivian, finalized a divorce from the ex-New England Patriot with many speculating that it was due to the QB’s decision to prolong his NFL career into his 40s with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And now the love is well and truly over as she has started a relationship with Joaquim Valente, a fellow Brazilian national who served as her Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach and as a mentor.
This is something Brady always worried about as he worried repeating co-parenting stress following his separation from Bridget Moynahan whom he has one child with and broke up with in 2006.
“Tom would actually agree that co-parenting hasn’t been easy,’ an insider told DailyMail.com. “There has been a lot of love lost in their relationship and navigating through that and their careers and finding new love has not been easy.
“It is safe to say that Tom and Gisele never expected to break up. He never wanted to divorce, especially since his relationship with Bridget ended, and dealing with that to get to a place of good co-parenting took some time.
To do it all over again has been stressful. It is just a sad situation because family is so important to both of them and to not be a complete family sets many struggles moving forward.”
Brady will make co-parenting work
Despite the seven-time Super Bowl champions’ fears, he is determined to make co-parenting work with the mother of his two children and likewise, Bundchen‘s kids are also very close to her heart meaning that she will prioritize their needs over being petty.
So, in the turmoil of their break-up they’re now finally beginning to understand their dynamic as co-parents and potentially friends, instead of husband and wife, and they will manage to strike up a positive relationship.
Like everything, they will get there,” the source added. “Because they aren’t getting back together, but Gisele and Tom have gone through a bunch of sadness to be where they are now, which is leaps and bounds better than it has been.
“As much as it is not ideal, they are both determined to get there somehow. They both agree that the benefit of their kids is what matters, and [Gisele] wasn’t lying when she said they have good days and bad days. It is a process, especially in the public eye.”
