Serious marital differences already existed over King’s insistence on giving away the Nobel money, his demand that the family live in the most modest circumstances possible, and his belief that Coretta’s primary role was to stay home and raise the children. Outweighing them all, however, was the fact that there were some things Martin King badly needed that he could not find at home. Now that King faced the threat of having his personal life exposed in excruciating detail to the entire nation, the inner pressures were worse than ever.
