It starts around the second week of March. I lose my Husband. March Madness is his favorite thing ever. He's a HUGE basketball fan and it doesn't help that he used to work on the basketball staff at the NCAA. This is my third tournament with him, and every day from here until the first weekend in April, we will have a game on the TV, a game on the computer, and he'll be on Twitter, tweeting things that don't even sound like English to me. I do love March Madness, too. The upsets, the Duke wins, the Kansas wins, the bracket challenges. I will be right there with him on the couch most days. He could literally sit and watch every game, back to back, for an entire 2 weeks and be happy. I'm not quite that way, as I have to have other human interaction, go outside, eat. You would think I would say he needs to stop watching what he loves, pay more attention to me, and who cares about a stupid game? But I love that he gets so passionate about it. It's something that he really nerds out about and I think it's cool. He pays non-stop attention to me every day (unless our dog is doing something really cute), serves me, cleans our house, cooks dinner, takes out the trash, feeds the dog, and a ton of other stuff that he doesn't have to do. So when March Madness comes around, I want him to watch every second of it. It's ok that I lose my husband to TV for a couple of weeks. He has enjoyed watching games since he was a kid, and just because he has a wife now, doesn't mean he should care less about it. Kind of like how I will always need to go camping with my girl friends. He's not invited and never will be and it's ok! Just thought I would share this small word about marriage, since of course I am an expert. It's ok that your husband/significant other watches sports or movies or goes hunting or whatever. Mine watches (and actually likes) stupid girl shows with me and my friends while we scream at the TV and then talk about it for hours. That's some love.
The only thing I will make him do is watch Winthrop play in the Women's NCAA tournament against Duke on Saturday at 11. This might be torture to watch women's basketball, but it's history for all Eagle Alumni out there. Bring on the Madness!
