How To Get Your Woman To Enjoy Sports With You.
You like sports. Your girlfriend or wife doesn’t like sports. This can create tension and frustration for both of you your relationship.
Even if you only wish to watch your favorite football time once a week for 16 weeks (and maybe a couple extra weekends if they make the playoffs), you may still find that your woman interrupts your enjoyment and complains about how it’s such a “brutal” sport or one of the thousands of other complaints women can come up with about sports. Sure, she can watch her “reality” shows whenever she wants. All the yelling and screaming during the many cat fights that happen each episode with all the cursing and beeps is perfectly okay and her world. You have to live in that world so you need to figure out a way you can get your woman to enjoy sports with you.
- Start out taking it slow. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drunk. You can shove the horse’s face in the water and kill it. Use this analogy for introducing your woman to sports. Your woman already doesn’t enjoy watching sports and she most likely doesn’t understand the game either. She doesn’t need to know every rule in the book about your favorite sport to enjoy it or have a much greater understanding of what the hell is going on. If you want her to watch football with you, teach her the basics and let her ask questions after that. 4 quarters. Offense and Defense. Fumbles and Interceptions. Team names and the cities they play for. These are the basics.
- Don’t try to make the game all about statistics and rules. Your girlfriend likes drama. She likes to follow people’s lives and know what they’re into and what’s happened in the past. Every team and every player has a story. Pick out the stars from each team that’s playing and fill her in with some gossip. He was married to this model. He broke his leg last year. He was arrested on DUI. He donates a lot to charity. Let her make good and evil out of the teams and out of the players.
- Find something that’s commonly associated with being a spectator of that sport that your woman is into as well. If your babe is a raging alcoholic, bring her to a nickel beer night. If your lady has a loud mouth then tell her how she can yell her ass off at the game. Maybe she’ll even yell less at home. Maybe not.
- Do a trade. Maybe she’ll leave you alone while you watch your games, or maybe even participate with you and, in exchange, you’ll tune into some episodes of her favorite 60 minute shout-fest.
If you don’t feel like investing this kind of time and effort, you can date a woman who’s already into sports.
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