I think at least part of their marital issues are the same deal as why the vast majority of celebrity marriages fail -- infinite amounts of options and cash.
For the High Elves of the world, you need not be concerned with simple survival or have any real need to compromise your needs or desires to achieve a reasonable balance. No, for the 1 percenters you realize that you can build a dream home of ridiculous opulence complete with a moat and then decide within a year that it wasn't enough.....wasn't what you thought it would be and so on the market it goes.
So, you rinse, cycle and repeat while you chase finding the feeling of home you had when you were a kid, but you find that having endless resources doesn't equal happiness, but maybe it's just around the corner. Or on a different coast. Or having a private heliport. Trading one gilded cage for another.
I think about the story about the LA mansion I alluded to above and nobody really had any facts why that didn't work out for Tomzelle. There were rumors that Giz "hated California", but what did that mean? Why would you spend 10M on a Xanadu next to Schwarzenegger's house if that was the case? Did some Tinseltown A-lister go all mean girls on Giz? I can't fathom any of it.
It's almost impossible for me to even imagine what the dynamics of their relationship are. I'm not poor anymore, but I still think like the kid that added water to the empty ketchup bottle and would shake it up to get a little runny ketchup water for my hot dog.
I'll tell you one thing, though. For a guy that has always been very careful with words Brady can make some odd statements that make you wonder. From his retirement statement, for instance:
"This is difficult for me to write, but here it goes: I am not going to make that competitive commitment anymore. I have loved my NFL career, and now it is time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention."
So, are Giz and the kids those "things" or does he mean TB12? Or being the next Tony Romo? The family gets only a brief mention when he was thanking the Tampa fans, but he goes out of his way for SnakeOil Boy:
“To Alex Guerrero, thank you. I could never have made every Sunday without you; it’s that simple. Your dedication to your craft and our friendship and brotherhood are immeasurable. We have an unbreakable bond, and I love you.
To sum it up, Brady said almost zero about his wife and kids yet went all Hallmark movie on his personal trainer. Let's see if the marriage is unbreakable.
