John Lennon and Yoko Ono married in 1969 and, four years later, decided they needed a break from one another. They argued with a rising level of intensity and spent all of their time together. As Lennon spoke about how miserable he felt, Ono pitched a temporary separation.
She shared how she brought this up to him. Yoko Ono and John Lennon decided they needed some time apart In 1973, Lennon and Ono’s situation became unbearable. They fought constantly and spent all of their time together.
While they loved each other, they both reached breaking points. Ono said there wasn’t one big, blowout fight before they decided on a separation , though. She quietly suggested a separation when Lennon complained about feeling unhappy.
“One night John and I were lying in bed in the Dakota, and John kept saying how miserable he was, how he needed to get away,” Ono recalled in the book The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of The Beatles by Steven Gaines and Peter Brown. “I said that we had been together twenty-four hours a day for five years and that I needed some time apart for myself. I told him, ‘Why don’t you go to Los Angeles?’” While this moment had begun to feel inevitable for the couple, Lennon seemed surprised by the suggestion.
“What would I do there?” he asked her. She told him to call Phil Spector and get to work on an album. As he said he couldn’t go alone, Ono suggested that he bring their assistant, May Pang.
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