<p>Former New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, who previously identified as a lesbian, have decided to separate.</p>
<p>The two are splitting romantically to date other people, but they are not planning on divorcing or even moving out of their Brooklyn home, the pair announced in a lengthy <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyregion/de-blasio-marriage-chirlane-mccray.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New York Times published Wednesday.</p>
<p>De Blasio, 62, and McCray, 68, said their decision came after a discussion at home about two months ago that began with de Blasio querying why they weren&#8217;t “lovey-dovey anymore?”</p>
<p>“You can feel when things are off,” de Blasio told the Times, “and you don’t want to live that way.”</p>
<p>“You can’t fake it,” McCray said.</p>
<p>“I just want to have fun,” she said. “It’s not that we haven’t had fun.”</p>
<p>De Blasio was mayor of New York for eight years, from 2014 to 2021. He was succeeded by the current mayor, Eric Adams, also a Democrat.</p>
<p>The two pointed to several specific events when they felt their marriage took a hit. One is the COVID pandemic in 2020, while de Blasio was still mayor. Another was de Blasio&#8217;s run for president in 2020, which McCray called &#8220;a distraction,&#8221; but she supported him anyway.</p>
<p>“This is not the kind of thing where you can break ranks,” McCray said. “That’s part of the difficulty of being part of a package.”</p>
<p>De Blasio is convinced their marriage would not have encountered its current difficulties if he had never been elected mayor, according to the Times.</p>
<p>“Everything was this overwhelming schedule, this sort of series of tasks,” de Blasio said. “And that kind of took away a little bit of our soul.”</p>
<p>During their &#8220;trial separation,&#8221; the couple will continue to live “for the time being” in the Park Slope townhouse where they raised their two children, now adults.</p>
<p>De Blasio met McCray when both worked for David Dinkins, New York&#8217;s first black mayor from 1990 to 1993. At the time, McCray identified as a lesbian and was not immediately open to her future husband&#8217;s attempts to pursue her, but she eventually fell in love with him, she said.</p>
<p>“He was very easy to fall in love with,” she told the Times.</p>
<p>The two married in 1994 in Brooklyn.</p>
<p>However, de Blasio said he continued to ponder his wife&#8217;s sexual orientation.</p>
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<p>“For the guy who took the chance on a woman who was an out lesbian and wrote an article called ‘I Am a Lesbian,’” de Blasio told the Times, “there was a part of me that would at times say, ‘Hmmm, is this like a time bomb ticking? Is this something that you’re going to regret later on?’ So I always lived with that stuff.”</p>
<p>Since his election to mayor in 2013, de Blasio and McCray have weathered their share of criticism and scandals together.</p>
<p>While he was mayor, de Blasio was criticized for making McCray extremely influential within City Hall, including boosting her potential run as Brooklyn borough president.</p>
<p>In 2019, McCray&#8217;s city-run $850 million mental health initiative, called ThriveNYC, was <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/02/27/with-opaque-budget-and-elusive-metrics-850m-thrivenyc-program-attempts-a-reset-873945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for operating without much scrutiny or metrics to measure its success.</p>
<p>Just last month, the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board ordered the former mayor to pay nearly $500,000 in reimbursements and fines for having his security detail accompany him on trips during his failed presidential campaign.</p>

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