Are Sports Driving A Wedget In Your Marriage?
Games Guy | July 5, 2011
What are weekends like at your house? Are they pleasant times that you and your spouse spend working around home and spending time with each other? Or maybe they’re dominated by your husband’s overwhelming passion for sports. Women with certain husbands commonly find themselves having to plan around certain sporting events. Your husband may be too focused on watching the big game instead of attending an important family function. Most women resent sports because they don’t enjoy watching them with their man. In cases like these, sports can easily be the culprit that destroys the marriage.
People don’t usually get married so they can spend most of their waking hours alone which is the case with a sports widow. Not that it’s only the husband who is guilty of watching too many sports, of course. It’s a sad commentary that so many married folk would prefer to spend time alone watching a game than in quality interaction with their spouse, but it happens in couple after couple, weekend after weedend, and holidays are included since they often feature important sporting events.
Like everything else in one’s life, it’s okay to spend time watching sports in moderation. Moderation is best even if both people love to watch sports. After all, sitting on the couch screaming, “Kill ‘em!†isn’t exactly quality together time. In order for your marriage to grow and become strong, you need to spend quality time just talking. The problem is even more severe if it’s only one person doing it though since you may not be able to even extract them from the TV enough to have friends over. If this is the way you’re spending your married years, then you may begin to wonder why you got married in the first place.
In order to resolve this type of situation, moderation and compromise are very important. You should discuss your spouse’s sports habits before you two even get married. So that you’ll both be happy, it’s best that you agree to certain guidelines and stick to them. Choose the most important sports events and learn to forego others. It’s important to tell him about future apointments with occasional reminders. If he’s watching a sporting event that was already agreed upon, it’s best not to bother him. The time the two of you spend together will be better if he’s allowed his quality alone time. Doc No. hlsoehasl-sldhgt
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