Jessica Simpson’s Book: Details You Didn’t Know About Her Relationship With Nick Lachey

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He Didn’t Want the Marriage to End

Simpson reveals that she was the one who pulled the plug on the marriage. Her grandmother and her mother both encouraged her to work it out with Lachey, but her father was proud of her for getting out. When Simpson first informed Lachey of her decision to end the marriage, he tried to talk her out of it and, when she presented him with divorce papers, he tried to talk her parents into getting her to rethink things. Simpson, however, insisted that the marriage was over.

She wrote in Open Book that Lachey offered to go to couple’s counseling, and asked her not to leave him, but she stood firm. According to her, she responded, “Love is not enough. If love was enough, I would stay forever. But it isn’t enough. We have to like each other. We have to be friends.”

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