When you are 16 and dating and partying and playing sports life is good. Life may be much better at 16 is if you have skill, ability and some sixth sense for the activity you are playing.
Then you actually make it to the next level. You now are a celebrity and athlete and the media and public begins to own you if you let them. You heed the advice to exercise regularly, eat right, sleep right and date cautiously and save your money for tomorrow.
Next you get married. You keep doing the same things but now you have the opportunity to have children. Then you have children. Now you have more to think about than you and the team.
Maintaining relationships in the entertainment world of sport is difficult. But, maintaining relationships in the average Joe/Jane work world of dad/mom being away from home 30 days at a time is also difficult.
Trust. You cannot leave this word alone in your significant relationships. Even away for long periods of time there needs to be a level of trust between you and your spouse and children that when home you are home they become important. They family trusts that when home you will care and share thoughts, feelings, good times and bad times with them.
This sounds easy but it is not when married professional athletes live single and then live married in an on and off world of high emotion at work, in the media and then at home. One can argue that the same is true for married people who work away from home in the Tar Sands of Alberta.
Our Opinion
Trust is the overriding issue for everyone who is married in any job whether a 9 to 5 job or an irregular job such as an athlete. When the trust breaks down between the athlete and his or her family then other issues, concerns and problems arise around the family.
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