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I’m A March Madness Widow
One girlfriend wonders: Is there room for me and college hoops in his life?
by Carrie Melago
We had just sat down to breakfast at a quaint Connecticut inn last Monday morning, during a romantic midwinter getaway.
The fireplace was roaring. Calming new age music piped softly, and our innkeeper was busy preparing us a small feast. Perfect, I thought. It was precisely the kind of escape I’d imagined when we planned the trip weeks ago.
Jon turned to me and smiled. “Can you hand me the sports section?” he asked.
I suppose I should have expected this: It is mid-March, the time when many a man’s fantasy turns to college hoops. In the coming weeks, I knew from experience, there would be brackets to fill out and seemingly endless games to watch with hawk-like vigor. But that wasn’t all.
For three weeks a year, Jon logs endless hours on the phone talking to friends, who discuss players as if they know them. Is J.R. Reynolds an old buddy from college I haven’t met yet, I’ll wonder. Oh, right, no, he’s a guard at U.V. A.
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1 Apryl DeLancey // Mar 21, 2008 at 9:17 am
Great points Mark - I second that! Why fight it? I personally love sports so I don’t have the same issues you do with this. I’ve had friends that took time to see what held their man’s attention and became entranced themselves! You should have watched the Xavier v. Georgia game yesterday, talk about passion and storyline - who needs scripted TV dramas!
2 Mark // Mar 21, 2008 at 7:16 am
Here is what you do. Embrace his love of basketball! It is who he is. THis is a prime example of a girl who wants to change a guy into something else. What if you organized a party for him and his buddies to all watch the game together? He would think you are the greatest girlfriend in the world. Maybe he would then be more inclined to celebrate your hobbies that he thinks are ridiculous.
If his basketball obsession is really something you can not tolerate, get a new boyfriend. However, you are missing a chance to be one of those girls that he and his friends think of as the best girlfriend EVER, if you would just make his basketball obsession fun for him. It is only a few weeks a year!