Rob Jetten has the gossip media after him. According to the Story, the love life of the new prime minister is under pressure because his boyfriend Nicolás Keenan is said to exhibit diva behavior.
Something very strange happened in Rob Jetten’s love life at the end of last year: his friend Nicolás Keenan decided to unfollow him on Instagram and this was discovered by the juice channels. The D66 politician came up with a very strange excuse: Nicolás was disappointed that he had so much D66 content in his feed, and thought that unfollowing Rob would help.
Diva behavior
The Story thinks it’s messy though. ‘Will the premiership still cost Rob Jetten’s upcoming wedding?’, the tabloid headlines. “The big question is what role Nico will now take on, as the first ‘frst gentleman’ of the Netherlands. Can he handle playing second fiddle, which is often customary as a partner of the Prime Minister?”
That boy doesn’t want to be in Rob’s shadow at all, the magazine thinks. “Nico is known for his temperamental nature, and is even called dominant in circles around the Prime Minister. “A diva,” someone even describes it plainly to Story.”
Difficult
Henk Krol, a former politician, also expresses his concerns. He says in the magazine that they will have a hard time: “I fear so. Wherever they come together, the attention will always go to Rob Jetten and not to Nicolás. That is fate when your partner is known.”
He continues: “One of the causes of my own breakup is that my ex-partner Aldo found it difficult that all the attention was always on me. People didn’t even shake his hand or keep asking him who he was.”
What now?
What should Rob and Nicolas do then? “My advice to Nicolás is not to come along to official occasions. And for Rob, the advice is to always put Nicolás first at home. Then they have a chance.”
There is only one way to save the day, thinks relationship psychologist Marcelino Lopez, known from Married at First Sight. He concludes: “My advice is to cherish small relationship rituals. Fixed moments that are non-negotiable. Even if it is just breakfast together. Or a fifteen-minute check-in every evening without a telephone.”
