If you take that point of view, they wouldn't even have married, since even then it was obvious he was going to be playing for several more years.
What the article says is:
Also, from another report:
Source:
Gisele Bündchen Feels Like Tom Brady 'Needs to Be Home' for Kids: Source
So, there definitely is an element of time to it. She feels he's already the GOAT, there's no more need to prove anything else, and now's the time to help her with the kids as they go through their teen years. He seems to think she'd eventually come around and support his decision to keep playing, but it seems he miscalculated on that.
From her point of view, there's no more upside to keep playing, and lots of downside (risk of injury with life changing effects, children being raised with inadequate parental guidance). Also there is the little thing that she too would like to have a career but her need to be the full time parent is preventing that from happening.
From his point of view I presume he feels football and the thrill of competition is what gets him out of bed in the morning, and he wants to milk every last down out of his career, and feels his wife should support him on that, but he and his camp has said very little.
Yes, that's what the title of the article I posted earlier suggests, as do the comments I've quoted above.
Yet another article says:
Note the use of "asked" instead of "demanded" as some here suggest.
Source:
Tom Brady, Gisele Bu?ndchen are Living in Separately
