Opening up about the divorce in her 1998 memoir, “After The Fall,” Suzanne Somers admitted that she was unhappy in her marriage to Bruce Somers. “I was miserable and blamed him for our predicament,” she wrote. “I felt that for both of us, youth had been cut short and our individual dreams would never be realized.” She added that their marriage was doomed even from the start. “What had been fun as girlfriend and boyfriend was now a new life of responsibility we were not ready to assume,” Suzanne said. “We had no money, so paying the rent and putting food on the table kept us both in a constant state of panic, hardly conducive to starting a life together.” In addition to financial problems, Suzanne said she and her ex-husband also lacked a deep, emotional connection. “We hardly knew each other. Our dating conversations had been about parties, sports, and the latest jokes,” she wrote in her book, adding, “There had been no serious digging into our souls.”
Although her ex was a nice guy “with an easy laugh” who did well in school and dreamt of becoming a lawyer, Suzanne said she’d made the wrong decision in marrying Bruce. “He was two years older than me, but his twenty years were not sufficient to prepare him for fatherhood and marriage,” she said. Ultimately, the “Step By Step” star said she had no regrets about walking away from the marriage. “The union had been so wrong that we both felt it was better to get out now rather than later,” she said.
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While Bruce seems to have mastered the art of staying under the radar over the years, a photo posted on Instagram by his son, Bruce Somers Jr, suggests the two maintain a close relationship.
