Toni Tennille Reveals There Was No Deep Connection In Marriage To 'The Captain'

I guess love didn't keep them together...

When they divorced, the "official" story was something about medical insurance.

Never marty someone whos last name is dragon!

Always thought “The Captain” was a weirdo…He was obviously no “first mate”.

In all the interviews I've seen with her she comes off as cold, unfriendly and self-centered.

Their marriage was used to make money - just like Sonny & Cher.

She turns 85 next May(will be 2025). So this edition of Inside Edition was almost 10 years ago. That means her ex-husband died about 5 years after this aired on TV. Strange is how people respected marriage so much that she didn’t feel loved and stayed for four decades and he didn’t love her yet wouldn’t divorce for those same four decades. Some may say you shouldn’t live in a loveless marriage but there may have been love, just not enough of the spouse to spouse kind of love. Yeah, not the kind of marriage one gets married for. I still wish people tried their best to keep it together. People give up too fast now.

They stayed together 39 years for the fans?? It couldn't have been so bad!

Yea. He always had a resting-jerk look to his face.

Incredibly sad to hear. A beautiful woman with such talent and personality. To waste decades in a relationship that was void of so many rewards she could've shared with another man is heartbreaking.

It's sad and disappointing when the partner is dead and none of the accusations can be verified.

Sad that she lived in a loveless marriage. I hope she's found true love in her life. ❤

Her voice is so beautiful!

Seems like he could've been gay

Wait..what? I grew up with and loved their music but even as a kid I NEVER thought they had a connection! I thought she was the sweetest and he was a jerk! I gather that's what most fans thought!
She has an eternally youthful face and energy!

She/they didn't want to divorce because of the fans (???) No, take responsibility for your own mistakes. Your fans had their own lives to worry about and whether you stayed married or not wasn't one of them Toni.......🤷

Wow! Imagine the love she could’ve had in her life, but stayed for 39 years. You only get 1 life & she deserved better.

She did a good guy wrong. Shameful!

Gee if that duet doesn’t prove Travolta is gay nothing will.

Someone said to me that she was very hard to live with picky arguementative, angry. Not what you see on the facade.

She looks like Miss Universe when she was young.Beautiful voice.

Ok Toni, the same hairstyle here 30/40 years later??, really girl? c'mon now!!! lol

I have no doubt that Captain had Narcissistic personality disorder. Undiagnosed of course, because he would never do therapy. She has a lot of empathic character traits. If you read the book, you will see how in so many ways he was not there. Neglect is a form of abuse. He was absolutely horrible.

Wasnt Daryl on the Autism Spectrum?
Pure Genius Musically but Couldnt Connect Relationship wise.

Sounds like it was a business arrangement more than a romantic one.

Very sad to hear this! I loved their show in the 70’s! He was sooo quiet and they seemed like total opposites personality wise. I could not stay with anyone that has no connection with me. You might as well be alone. 🥲🥲

Sounds like Daryl may have been assexual.

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Who cares? I loved the song. The Song. That's it.

She’s such a beautiful lady❤❤ love their show and their songs❤❤❤

Always hated that haircut.

He has a blank emotionless look in his eyes that I had thought was an act to be a contrast to her. 😢

The Vidal Sassoon thing was a Rosemarys baby reference no?

She was married to him for 39 years and basically dumped him as his health declined and could not play the keyboards any more. This is what women do. They use you up and throw you overboard. She's nothing but a typical garden tool.

Not disappointed in her at all. She’s so genuine. Sad she lived like that when she thought the fans would be sad.

Dragon won the lottery when he met her-

Might he have been on the Autism spectrum? Asperger's.

If she was so u happy in her marriage why didn’t she just make a life for herself, greedy for money perhaps?

So Tony Tennille was actually Mrs Roper?

She is delusional

It's hard to dispute her when she made a hit song about this very subject.

I was very disappointed @ the end of reading the biography of Toni Ternillr and the ways her husband treated her when he was treating her as if she did not exist. He was spending money on things they really did not need but continued to spend. Finally saying the wrong words to her &
she could not take any more of his abuse. She did the right thing & finally divorced him. The only time she came to see him again was when he went peacefully in his sleep & passed on. She was right by his side. I love this lady very much personally & wish her nothing but great success.

How could you not have passion married to that beauty?

So she's like a parent lying to their kids about santa

I loved their music and grew up listening.

she's great. great music, great memories

I don't think Toni Tennille gave her fans credit. If they had divorced and continued working together the answer would simply be, "We tried for love, but work better as friends." Would have been accepted.

After meeting them back in the early 1990s when I worked as a sound engineer at the concert hall they were playing, I look back at the interactions and I think Daryl Dragon probably would have been placed somewhere on the Autism Scale these days.

The captain couldn’t get wood.

She crapped on the captain.