Leap of Faith
"It was like immediate sweat from head to toe, like if I'm not with this human being I will die," Doyle recalled on MamaMia's No Filter podcast of meeting Wambach for the first time in 2016. "It wasn't like a friendship, it was like a recognizing. That's how we both describe it."
Talking about how quickly they realized they wanted to be together, after only briefly chatting in person when their respective book tours brought them to the same place, she said, "Sure, I was worried about everything. I was so scared. My God, I had so much to worry about at that time. But it's interesting when you say 'fast'; it did happen fast and it didn't. I mean, we didn't even touch each other or hug each other.
"I remember sitting with Abby and saying, 'Are we seriously going to do this before we've ever even kissed? Are we insane?'"
She Liked It
In June, Pride Month, Doyle posted a throwback photo of them kissing inside St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, an "act of joyful resistance."
"Every Lover is a Fighter," she wrote. "Deeply grateful to the fighters who came before me. Deeply committed to fighting for those who come after."
In Demand
Now both Wambach and Doyle are sought-after experts, audiences pumping them for information about the secrets of their success—and how they've mastered the modern family.
"We're using our first marriages as a gauge—things that we did that didn't feel good, things that happened in those marriages that were confusing and left us reeling," Wambaugh explained to Glamour.com in October 2019 when they were on their Together Live speaking tour. "Both Glennon and I had to forgive ourselves for our past mistakes. We also had to open all the lines of communication. We've each worked to create the most beautiful and truest versions of ourselves, and by virtue, we've created the most beautiful version of a marriage we can dream of. It's not something that we sit idly by waiting for. It's something that we actually proactively go out and cocreate together."
Co-Heads of Household
"We're both raging feminists in every way," Doyle told Glamour.com. "One of the coolest things about being in a same-sex marriage is that you realize—even when you thought you were a progressive person—you still have to undo all of the gender expectations that you grew up with. I remember sitting down with Abby, and being like, 'I'm all for equality and everything, but I really need to know which one of us gets the bugs.'"
She acknowledged that she played the more old-fashioned, traditional-wife role during her first marriage, "And I think when we first got married, I just kind of defaulted and passed that over to Abby. One night she was like, 'I don't want this responsibility for myself. I need you to be in this with me. I need you to learn it.' We got a financial adviser and I was so confused for a while, but I didn't give up. Now she doesn't feel as alone in the financial management."
Moreover, Doyle continued, "A partner in modern marriage is not someone who says, 'What can I do to help?' as if they're an assistant. It's carrying the mental load so that one person isn't the default parent and the other is the helper."
Full-of-Love House
"There's probably a heck of a lot more that we have in common with other families than what's different," Glennon said about her and Wambach's daily lives as mom and stepmom to son Chase and daughters Tish and Amma. "What's different is we have three parents in our family: two of us are women, one of them is Craig, my ex-husband. We do blended family a little bit different than many families, in that we are co-parenting between the three of us equally."
Wambach added, "We're the same as other people in that we have the same things go on inside our home: We play, we have fun, we get annoyed with each other, we love each other, we watch TV."
No. 1 Fans
Wambach's soccer skills and advocacy for women's equality are "the least impressive things about her," Doyle gushed when introducing their relationship to the world in 2016. "Abby is deeply sensitive and kind. The kids call her an M&M because she looks tough on the outside but inside she's really mushy and sweet. Abby's brave. Not just with her words but with her entire being. She's unwaveringly good to Craig, to the kids, to Sister [Doyle's sister, Amanda] and to all my people. And oh my God, she is so good to me."
Family Ties
"Before I met Glennon, I was living fast and hard," Wambaugh admitted to People in May. Calling herself a "bonus mom," she said, "the kids and Glennon have taught me everything."
"Our New Baby"
The family welcomed Hattie to the fold in 2020. She joined bulldog sister Honey.
An Epic Saga
The support runs deep, with images of Doyle's latest book, Untamed, all over Wambach's Instagram account.
Leaders of the Pack
The support river runs both ways, with Doyle sporting some Wolfpack merch on a cozy day at home.
All Aboard
"Divorce is difficult," Wambach told People. "But Craig, Glennon and I make a choice every day. We make sure that the kids' lives are as least disrupted as possible."
Wambach and Melton are both coaches for Tish's youth soccer team—and they've even played on an adult-league team together.
In It to Win It
They don't mean that "all day, every day, we're talking about our marriage," Wambach assured Glamour.com. "This means that when we lie down at night to go to bed, we do a moral inventory. This means that when we have things that come up, we sit down and respectfully, calmly discuss what's gone on. Modern marriage is taking all the evidence and all the facts of each of our lives and trying to make some sort of sense out of them together."