Tammy Peterson – Biography, Age, All About Jordan Peterson’s Wife

While some people marry for love and others for convenience, it seems Tammy Peterson’s marriage solves both problems for her and her husband. She is married to Jordan B. Peterson. Jordan has repeatedly said that Tamara, who is a trained massage therapist, is like the calm in the storm. He is very grateful to her, as are the plethora of children she cared for over the last two decades of her life.

Tammy Peterson’s Bio (Age)

Tammy was born Tammy Roberts in the province of Alberta, Canada on June 3, 1965. There is no information available regarding her parents, siblings, upbringing, and experiences during her early years.

For her university education, the Canadian attended the University of Alberta. After that, Tammy decided to pursue a career as a massage therapist. She doesn’t know if she owned her own business or worked under someone else’s employ. After marrying Jordan Peterson, Tammy decided to transition from massage therapy to full-time foster parenting.

The former therapist firmly believes in giving shelter to children especially in their formative years. She said how important it was for them to find a place to come back to, no matter if they excelled or did something terrible. Tammy has been in foster care for over two decades. By this time, most of her adopted children have grown up and returned to their orphanages. Some of the others have been able to find permanent foster homes and settle in well.

Relationship with Jordan Peterson

It may seem that Tammy Peterson spends all her time caring for foster children that she hasn’t had time to devote to building her own family. However, the foster parent has two children with her husband Jordan. They have a son named Julian Peterson and a daughter named Mikhaila Peterson. They were both raised by Tammy and her husband in Canada.

It is unknown how long they spent, however, Tammy bonded with Jordan Peterson in the year 1989. Jordan never hesitates to serenade his wife when the opportunity arises. He has repeatedly stated that she is the reason he remains humble and grounded. Tammy’s husband takes on a multifaceted responsibility, to say the least. He is an author and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. Besides his writing and academic responsibilities, he is also a traveling lecturer and clinical psychologist by training.

What to know about Tammy Peterson

1. Due to her husband’s often unconventional opinions on sensitive topics, Tammy is no stranger to media tension and rebellion. Her husband is not one to fear what he believes in and he likes to say what he thinks is right, regardless of the backlash. Jordan credits his wife for his inability to overreact in tense situations. He is the author of two very popular books – Maps of Meaning and 12 Rules of Life, the former has drawn strong reactions from the media and the general public due to his stance on some burning issues.

2 Tammy Peterson has known Jordan pretty much her whole life. Tammy met him when they were just kids. she was eight at the time. Jordan would later reveal that he immediately took her away and that he was in fifth grade, he had announced to his father that he was going to marry her. Tammy also liked certain things about him back then, but she was jealous that he wore glasses, as she had always wanted to wear glasses herself. She didn’t tell him until 20 years later.

3. Tammy can call herself by Jordan’s last name now. However, when she was 13, Jordan overheard a conversation she was having with a friend. Tammy said that when she got married, she would never take her husband’s last name. Hearing this, Jordan walked into the house and Tammy jokingly proposed to him.

4 Jordan and Tammy Peterson also played together a lot as kids. She especially enjoyed playing croquet with him as she was much better than him at the game and always dominated him whenever they played.

5 Jordan Peterson’s wife quit her job as a massage therapist after getting married. However, before becoming a full-time foster parent, she worked for a time as her husband’s personal assistant and advisor. She still fulfills this last role, to which her husband is grateful. It was her love for children and her pain at seeing many of them who were helpless that prompted her to start taking them in. She was already about 30 years old at that time.

6 Tammy is adept at staying out of the limelight. In fact, she has no social media presence and also stays away from her husband’s social media. However, on a rare occasion in 2018, a video of her surfaced when her husband accidentally streamed it, showing her a news article about the school sex ed curriculum in Ontario.