If he could, Brandon Marshall would probably set his Facebook relationship status to “married” AND “it’s complicated”. The Dolphins wide receiver was hospitalized late Friday night/early Saturday morning after being stabbed by his wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall. Michi was in jail Saturday on one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

This was not the couple’s first domestic dispute. On March 1, 2009, Marshall was arrested in Atlanta for disorderly conduct after allegedly being involved in a fight with Michi, who was his fiancée at the time. (Marshall had multiple domestic disputes while in Denver, but they were with a different woman.)
Marshall and Michi met when Marshall was at Central Florida. They married in 2010. Marshall said in an interview with the Miami Herald last year that Michi, a psychology major, was helping him learn to deal with his quick temper.
"She is turning my life around. I am a very passionate, emotional person, and she is teaching me to channel that,” Marshall said. “My life is so much calmer now.”
Marshall admits that calm, collective thinking is something that doesn’t always come naturally to him.
"From the time I was 6, I was taught to react on the field, not to think, to make decisions in a millisecond, and the problem is, I was doing that in my life, too,” Marshall said. “I was reacting, never taking a moment to step back and think things through. And I had a temper. Someone made me mad, I'd fight back. I wanted to win every argument. Now, I realize it's OK to step away and lose an argument."
It will be interesting to hear what Marshall has to say next time he’s asked about Michi.
(Photo courtesy of Essence.com)
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