I stayed with a young couple in New Haven this week-end while participating in Yale Commencement and I saw how they negotiated a touchy relationship issue — baseball. He is a movie and baseball addict and she often complained that he spent most of his time in the living room watching the games.
Many women face this issue and sometimes carry their bitchy words, sniping remarks, and silent treatment a bit too far. Essentially it all adds up to sexless nights. For a better way, read Kind words, loving words.
With a bit of ingenuity, and some time on HGTV, they found a solution. First they moved their “Christmas and Thanksgiving” dining room to what had been a formal living room. Then they created a country kitchen with a comfortable couch and a 52 inch TV screen within easy view of the kitchen counter.
Now he gets to watch his games. She cooks or works at her laptop on the counter. And they talk. She says, “Now I get to spend more time with my husband and less time being angry. I’m even learning more about the Yankees.”
The woman who saved baseball: We learned recently that Sonia Sotomayor, the new Supreme Court nominee is an avid Yankee fan. Here is the Daily News Story that tells us how she is credited with saving the 1995 major league baseball season. New York Daily News, Baseball
“She issued an injunction on March 31, 1995, that effectively ended baseball’s longest and most damaging work stoppage, a seven-month-old clash between players and owners that cost MLB the 1994 World Series and threatened the 1995 season and the long-term health of the sport.”
A Yale Law School graduate Sonia Sotomayor sits on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan alongside Judge Guido Calabresi, former dean of the Yale Law.
Also from Yale Law who surprised us this weekend, you may enjoy reading this story:
Copyright 2009 Rita Watson