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Marriage Lessons From Sports

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Married couples can learn and apply enduring life lessons such as responsibility, respect, and fairness for their marriage from sports. Here are lessons the two of you can learn from popular sports.

Baseball: Keep them guessing.
This doesn’t mean expecting your mate to read your mind. It means keeping some mystery and delight in your marriage.

Basketball: Wait for the right moment.
Although you should pick the right time to have a difficult conversation, don’t wait too long before having the talk.

If you waited 48 hours, you waited too long.

Bicycling: Know when to change gears.
There are times when a decision you made together just doesn’t work out. Don’t say ‘I told you so!’ Reevaluate the decision without blaming one another for the mistake.

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