Advice For Married Men

I woke up early this morning and had a very quiet introspective hour in the rocking chair on the side porch with my coffee. I haven't written in a while and after some quality alone time with my thoughts I decided to write, but didn't really want to write about politics. So, I decided to write a little advice for men in long-term relationships based on a memory I had this morning.

 Stay with me here for a little bit while I give you the background.

There is a movie called The Family Man staring Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni that is a pretty good movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon when there isn't much else to do...kind of a "chick flick."

In the movie Nicholas Cage is a single man who works on Wall Street and believes he has everything he needs in life, money, prestige and power - even without a wife and kids. After a brief encounter with an armed man in a convenience store Cage is magically transported through time and space and wakes up the next morning in bed with a woman he let go 12 years prior (Tea Leoni), his old college girlfriend, and finds that he's married and has two kids and gets a look at the life he could have had and what he is missing in his life. He, of course, remembers his real life and is confused by what is happening while Tea Leoni knows nothing of what is going on and believes she has been his wife all along.  

Now the advice for men:

There is a scene where Cage and Leoni are kneeing on the bed looking at each other and Leoni is suddenly struck with a thought and says to Cage, "How do you do that (after 12 years of marriage)? How do you look at me like you're seeing me for the first time?"

Men, learn how to do that, learn how to look at your wife as if you are seeing her for the first time and your breath has been taken away.

Do this, and you'll be able to watch football uninterrupted every Sunday!