Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden have made marriage look easy. In 1975 — three years after Joe's first wife Neilia and their daughter Naomi were killed in a car crash — he wasn't looking for love, but love found him. "When I met Jill, I fell in love with her when I saw her," he said in a video for his 2020 presidential campaign. This love didn't waver, with the couple being as lovey-dovey as ever decades later . "Happy birthday, Jilly. I love you," read Joe's June 2025 birthday tribute for his wife. Days later, Jill celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary with a photo from their wedding day in 1977 and the message : "This is the truest thing I know: that love makes a family whole. Happy anniversary @JoeBiden."
Jill, who was a 23-year-old senior college student when she first met t