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Washington may never have seen a marriage quite like the Conways: Kellyanne, the longtime advisor to President Trump. George, the prolific public tormenter of his wifes boss.

After George announced late in 2019 that he would work to defeat the Presidents re-election by launching an anti-Trump super-PAC, we decided to look back on the arrangement and the epic events that have transpired since the Conways landed in Washington. But we also wondered: Whats it like to be in the same room with the couple? And: Could this marriage be working behind closed doors? Observers and marriage therapists weighed in with some surprising answers. Scroll down to read them.

August 1999

George gets his friend Ann Coulter to introduce him to conservative it-girl Kellyanne Fitzpatrick after seeing her on the cover of a society magazine.

April 28, 2001

Wedding day in Philadelphia. The Conways then move into Trump World Tower, one of Donald Trumps Manhattan apartment buildings.

December 13, 2005

George and Kellyanne launch a blog for National Review called Reconcilable Differences. The tagline: Two Conways, Two Takes. His: The Bush administration is the most politically and substantively inept that the nation has had in over a quarter of a century. Hers: When pondering why George, a fairly even-tempered fellow, feels so strongly, I am reminded of a line by Bree Van De Kamp, the fastidious perfectionist widow on ABCs Desperate Housewives. . . . The opposite of love isnt hate, Bree says, its indifference. And if you hate me, that means you still care, and were still connected . . . .

April 2006

George helps Trump with a condo-board issue, arguing against removing Trumps name from the World Tower facade. Impressed, Trump invites George to join the board. He declines but introduces Trump to Kellyanne. She joins the board.

May 2006June 2016

Kellyanne is a go-to pollster/adviser for right-wingers, such as Newt Gingrich and Mike Pence. She runs her first poll for Trump in 2013 when he considers a New York gubernatorial run. . . . George is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, & Katz in New York, handling securities and corporate litigation. In 2010, he argues at the Supreme Court for the first time. . . . The Conways retreat to the burbs to raise their four children in Alpine, New Jersey.

July 1, 2016

Candidate Trump hires Kellyanne.

August 17, 2016

Trump promotes Kellyanne to campaign manager.

November 8, 2016

Election Day.

November 29, 2016

George and Kellyanne take a Thanksgiving vacation in Miami.

December 30, 2016

George is said to be in the running for solicitor general. Kellyanne reportedly angles to snag him the job, squaring off with Jeff Sessions.

December 31, 2016

The couple hit the DC social circuit, spending New Years Eve at then British ambassador Kim Darrochs party.

March 17, 2017

So much for solicitor general: Trump reportedly wants George to run DOJs civil division instead.

April 2, 2017

The Conways buy an 11,000-square-foot Massachusetts Avenue Heights mansion with eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and a pool for nearly $8 million.

May 31, 2017

George declines Trumps job offer, writing him: Kellyanne and I continue to support you and your Administration, and I look forward to doing so in whatever way I can from outside the government.

June 5, 2017

On the same day that Kellyanne, in a Today interview, derides the medias obsession with covering everything [Trump] says on Twitter, George taps out his first negative tweet about the President, saying POTUSs tweets might make people feel better but wont get his travel ban approved by the Supremes.

October 30, 2017

The Conways greet guests on the White Houses South Lawn for a Halloween event.

January 1, 2018

The couple attend their neighbor Adrienne Arshts New Years Day brunch.

JanuaryApril 2018

Trump deluges Twitter with condemnations of the Russia probe . . . tweets that hes a very stable genius . . . says Democrats who didnt applaud his SOTU address are treasonous . . . considers canning special counsel Robert Mueller.

April 28, 2018

The Conways attend the White House Correspondents Dinner, where comedian Michelle Wolf roasts Kellyanne: Man, she has the perfect last name for what she does: Conway.

June 11, 2018

Amid a spate of Trump tweets attacking the special counsels investigation, George defends it in Lawfare, his first op-ed criticizing Trump.

July 9, 2018

George has 74,800 Twitter followers, up from roughly 5,500 at the time of his first anti-Trump tweet.

August 14, 2018

After a Washington Post reporter obliquely compares Trump to a CEO, George retweet-replies: What if a CEO routinely made false and misleading statements about himself, the company, and results, and publicly attacked business partners, company divisions (w/scare quotes!), employees, and analysts, and kowtowed to a dangerous competitor?

August 15, 2018

With half of Washington wondering about the Conways marriage, the Post profiles the couple. Kellyanne says Georges tweets are a violation of basic decency, certainly, if not marital vowsthen retroactively asks for the quote to be attributed to a person familiar with [the Conways relationship].

August 24, 2018

George tweets: What everyone should want . . . is a President capable of comprehending what it means to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed. Art. II 3.

October 30, 2018

George writes his first op-ed for the Post.

November 9, 2018

Reporters ask Trump about George. You mean Mr. Kellyanne Conway? Hes just trying to get publicity for himself.

November 14, 2018

George cofounds Checks and Balances, a group of right-leaning lawyers pledging to speak out for a government of laws, not men.

November 16, 2018

On a podcast, George calls the administration a shitshow in a dumpster fire. Asked how his wife sees his tweeting, George says, I dont think she likes it. But Ive told her I dont like the administration, so its even.

December 3, 2018

After a George tweet, Eric Trump tweets: . . . the utter disrespect George Conway shows toward his wife, her career, place of work, and everything she has fought SO hard to achieve, might top them all.

January 16, 2019

A day after a Trump tweet misspelled hamburger and Burger King responded with a joke, George tweets: Think of how much of a laughingstock a president has to become to have *Burger King* make fun of him. Sad.

March 18, 2019

George tweets a picture of the DSM-5.

Then: pics of the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.

Then: *all* Americans should be thinking seriously *now* about Trumpsmental condition and psychological state, including and especially the media, Congressand the Vice President and Cabinet.

Parscale tweets: We all know that @realDonaldTrump turned down Mr. Kellyanne Conway for a job he desperately wantedNow he hurts his wife because he is jealous of her success. POTUS doesnt even know him!

March 19, 2019

Trump retweet-replies: A total loser!

George retweets Trump: Tell us, @realDonaldTrump which of these diagnostic criteria do you not satisfy?

Parscale tweets: The rumor that Mr Kellyanne Conway introduced @KellyannePolls to @realDonaldTrump is a complete fabrication. . . . POTUS couldnt pick him out of a lineup.

George retweet-replies: LOL.

George gives a lengthy interview to the Post, dishing purported inside dope on Trump personnel decisions. (He says Trump told him hed nixed John Bolton for Secretary of State because of Boltons mustache.)

March 20, 2019

Trump tweets: George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wifes success & angry that I, with her help, didnt give him the job he so desperately wanted. I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!

George retweet-replies: You. Are. Nuts.

Kellyanne tells Politico: [Trump] left it alone for months out of respect for me. But you think he shouldnt respond when somebody, a non-medical professional, accuses him of having a mental disorder?

March 21, 2019

Responding to Fox Businesss Maria Bartiromo, Kellyanne says: I appreciate the President defending what he thinks is unfairness. . . . I was raised, though, in a household of strong Italian Catholic women who taught me that you air grievances like that in private. . . . I know George is quoted recently as saying, I wish she didnt work there. . . . But what message would that send to the feminists everywhere . . . ?

March 31, 2019

Chris Wallace of Fox News asks Kellyanne if George is jealous. She says: What I will tell you is that George was very supportive of President Trump. Cried on election night in his MAGA hat . . . . Wanted to take a job in the Trump administration and changed his mind.

April 18, 2019

Kellyanne addresses the Russia probe, now completed: This has been a political proctology exam, and [Trumps] emerging with a clean bill of health. George makes his own medical metaphor in a Post op-ed. Headline: TRUMP IS A CANCER ON THE PRESIDENCY. CONGRESS SHOULD REMOVE HIM.

April 28, 2019

On the Conways 18th wedding anniversary, George retweets political analyst Matthew DowdI am reminded of what Margaret Thatcher said Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you arent. George adds, Same with stable genius.

June 22, 2019

In the wake of E. Jean Carrolls allegation that Trump raped her, George writes an op-ed arguing that Carrolls claims are more credible than those of Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton in the 90s.

July 15, 2019

After Trump tweets that the minority congresswomen known as The Squad should go back to where they originally came from, George writes in an op-ed: Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president.

August 30, 2019

George contributes $5,600 to Republican Joe Walshs presidential campaign.

September 14, 2019

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