Claim: Franklin Roosevelt had marital issues with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Evidence: At age 23 in 1905 , he married Eleanor Roosevelt , and the couple went on to have six children.
The Roosevelts ' marriage was complicated from the beginning by Franklin 's controlling mother , Sara , and after Eleanor discovered her huband 's affair with Lucy Mercer in 1918 , she resolved to seek fulfillment in a public life of her own.