"Jobs": About Love

Pixar President Ed Catmull once said: "Although Steve is so deviant, he has the same feelings, strengths and weaknesses as ordinary people." In terms of innovation, people often regard Steve Jobs as He is treated like a god, but when it comes to his emotional life, he is just an ordinary mortal.

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In the spring of 1972, 17-year-old Jobs met Christian Brennan, his first official girlfriend. Brennan was a hippie-style girl with light brown hair and green eyes. Jobs at the time liked her otherworldliness.

From then on, Brennan was in and out of Jobs' life. Sometimes they became ordinary friends, sometimes they resumed their relationship as lovers, and this relationship lasted for 5 years. It wasn't until Brennan became pregnant in 1977 that their relationship was completely broken.

That year, the Apple II had been released. Jobs showed no concern for Brennan's pregnancy and even suggested that she hope that she would ejaculate the child. Later, when Brennan decided to have the child, Jobs strongly opposed giving the child up for adoption. What's even more dramatic is that Jobs' biological parents gave birth to him at the same age and abandoned him.

In 1978, Brennan gave birth to a girl, and Jobs named the child Lisa, but he did not admit that this was his child. Brennan and Lisa's life was in embarrassment, and eventually Brennan took Jobs to court to fight for child support. Through DNA testing, the probability that Jobs and Lisa were paternity was 94.41%, and Jobs had to pay monthly alimony for this. Jobs still claimed to the outside world, "As long as we analyze the data, 28% of men in the United States are likely to be the father of their children." Later, Jobs also regretted this incident. He later admitted that At that time, he was not ready to be a father. There was no love between Brennan and Jobs, and they were only entangled with each other because of Lisa.

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For the young and promising Steve Jobs, who was sometimes mysterious, sometimes romantic, and sometimes eccentric, there was never a shortage of women around him, but Jobs said that he only had women in his life. I have loved two women, one is Tina and the other is Lauren. Let me talk about Tina first.

In 1985, at the beginning of the conflict between Jobs and Sculley, Jobs met the first person he truly loved - Tina Ledes. They are connected and have similar experiences. For example, Tina comes from a troubled family.

When Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple, Tina accompanied him on a trip to Europe to heal. Tina longs for freedom, innocence and nature, and she longs for a romantic and stable life. So Tina tried to persuade Jobs to start a new life in Paris. However, Jobs was always ambitious, which was the fundamental reason why the two of them could not be together.

For Tina, falling in love with a self-centered person is painful. She couldn't stand Jobs's meanness, and she couldn't hurt him, nor could she watch him hurt others like the audience. This relationship lasted for five years with ups and downs, and finally ended in a breakup.

Even after Jobs got married, they still maintained spiritual communication, and Jobs would openly express his longing for Tina. However, both parties had reached a mutual understanding, and they could not express themselves as they imagined. Together, maybe it was meant to be.

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When Jobs and Tina broke up, another important woman came on the scene. She was Laurene Powell, who inherited Jobs’ $16.7 billion Asset soul mate.

Jobs and Lauren met at a lecture. To be more precise, it was a lecture given by Jobs at Stanford Business School. Lauren was a graduate student listening to the lecture. When they first met, Jobs missed the important dinner that day and took Lauren to a vegetarian restaurant. They have been together since then.

Lauren’s father was a hero who died in a plane crash. Her mother married a terrible man in order to support the family. Lauren developed an independent personality since she was a child.

However, their love was not always smooth sailing. On the first day of 1990, Jobs proposed to Lauren, and Lauren accepted, but Jobs never mentioned it again in the following months. The day before Christmas, Jobs once again announced his marriage to Lauren, who happened to be pregnant at the time.

The whole thing was not over yet. Jobs was still hesitant about getting married. He was still doubting whether he still loved Tina. He asked his friends one by one to get the answer. The best answer, and what's even more outrageous is that he still holds roses to convince Tina to return to him.

In the end, with the persuasion of friends, Jobs was finally convinced. Friends believe that although Tina and Jobs have a spiritual connection, only Lauren can build a solid relationship with Jobs because only Lauren can attract him with wisdom and tolerate his changeable personality. Facts also proved that Lauren was the best choice. They finally got married and had children, and sometimes discussed buying a washing machine every day at the dinner table.

Lauren is not only Steve Jobs’ gentle and virtuous wife, but also an investor and philanthropist.

Even after Steve Jobs left, Lauren was still quietly fulfilling Steve Jobs' mission to change the world.

Among the many women who had stayed by Steve Jobs' side, perhaps only Lauren could tolerate his meanness and understand his focus. It was Lauren Weiwei's constant companionship that enabled Steve Jobs to rise again, return to Apple, and change the future again. That’s it for today, continue tomorrow.