6 Times Justin Trudeau & Sophie Grégoire Shared Their Relationship Ups & Downs Before Separating

They had gone through "sunny days, heavy storms"

Just over a year before revealing their break up, Grégoire Trudeau opened up about what they had experienced during their relationship for their wedding anniversary on May 28, 2022.

"Together for 19 years, married for 17, we have navigated through sunny days, heavy storms, and everything in between and it ain't over," she said.

"You all know I keep things honest: long-term relationships are challenging in so many ways," she continued. "They demand constant work, flexibility, compromise, sacrifice, devotion, patience, effort, and so much more."

They had an intimate way of calming each other down

Grégoire Trudeau once shared the different tools couples can use to connect, calm down or start honest conversations with each other which include looking into each other's eyes.

"It's not just the eye gazing," Grégoire Trudeau said. "There's exercises that you can do body to body. Reading one beside the other, laying chest to chest or even back to back on a couch or on a bed, not moving for at least 15 to 20 minutes."

She noted that she had done this intimate exercise with success until both people's breathing and heartbeat calmed down.

"It's like both nervous systems come down together," she said.

He left her on read after they were reintroduced

When they were reintroduced as adults back in 2003, Trudeau basically left the woman who would become his wife and the mother of his children on read.

Grégoire Trudeau had emailed him to tell him that she enjoyed their meeting but he didn't send her an email back.

When she emailed him to tell him that she enjoyed their meeting, he didn't send her an email back.

They bumped into each other later that year and when he asked her out, she said that if he really wanted to go on a date with her he would respond to her email!

He knew she was "the one" on their first date

"I knew from our very first date that you were the one, Sophie," Trudeau said in an Instagram post to celebrate their wedding anniversary in 2022.

He had also shared that on their first date, he told Grégoire Trudeau that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

Then, they both "burst into tears" because they're "big sensitive souls."

She thought it was "hot" he showed his emotions easily

Grégorie Trudeau once opened up about what she thought was "hot" about her then-husband.

She said that Trudeau was a man "who also shows his emotion easily" which, in her opinion, set the bar for a new kind of "hot."

"Being alive is to actually be vulnerable, talk about your emotions and that is so attractive," she continued.

They were in a "complicated" situation before they got together

Back in 2021, Trudeau had explained that he and Grégorie Trudeau didn't exactly have a smooth start to their relationship.

"Let's just say we were both in a bit of a complicated phase in our personal lives. As soon as I met Sophie, I knew it was something serious with a lot of potential," he said during an appearance on a talk show.

"I didn't want to go too fast, I didn't want to miss my chance. I had to fix a few things in my life before I could just focus on her," he continued.

He also revealed that he "didn't want to go too fast" and miss his chance at being with her.

So, he "had to fix a few things" in his life before he could focus on Grégorie Trudeau.

When it was suggested that he had to become single before the relationship could start, he said, "You could put it that way."