Personal Relationshi Rogers Short Story

Before I became a cheerleader I didn't know anything about football. I was raised to love the cowboys; win or lose. All i knew about football was that touchdowns and field goals was good. A few sports I don't like is soccer and baseball, because I don't get the concept and I was not raised around it. Now since I go to a college where their main sports are basketball and baseball I have the chance to get to know the sport and maybe eventually like or even love it. In the story Rogers is a woman that was not raised around football or any sports, so growing up she disliked football and football teams. Rogers eventually married a man who loved football which was a problem in their relationship. In time she ended up getting over it and learning things about football and ended up learning to love football. Little things can tear appart a relationship so learn to like your spouses likes and learn more about it. These days' married couples have many small conflicts in their relationships that would eventually build up and cause divorces, like one love sports and one dislikes sports. Rogers persuades people to accept their spouse or signtificant other likes by carefully telling things in her personal …show more content…
Mostly about how football was sort of a conflict in their relationship at first. She described his actions everytime he talked about his favorite football player Brett Favre. She says, "when he talked about Favre, his eyes would sparkle and exuberance would infect his diction, his normal quiet mutter giving away to a braying crescendo," and that she "stopped listening when he opened his mouth," which indicateds a problem in their relationship. I believe in relationships they should tell each other when something they do or say bothers or irritate them so it wil not become a conflict in their relationship. Unless the conflict is unavoidable and can not be solved; I can't help you there; but if it can solve