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6ebe · 10 months ago

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rly wish male athletes would stop treating their wives and children as props for the sole benefit of their own well-being and sports career. like idk how to phrase this well but in that six nations show the sheer number of guys crediting their wives and kids for making them behave better/ have a more holistic view on life, “my children love me no matter how bad I play” like. smth abt banking on the unconditional love of children while you’re being an absent father bc of your job is crazy 😭😭😭

#tbf j should take male athletes out of this and just say lots of men … bc it’s so prominent #like even before my parents divorced my dad was like this 🤣 maybe that’s why the approach annoys me #like allll these guys leaving their wives at home to look after the kids most of the time #and only talk abt their families as a device to use to destress or WHATEVER #idk I’m probs reading too much into it but the fact that literally every guy interviewed who had a partner or kids said that like #idk maybe example of poor mens mental health if were being generous and an insular upbringing with only sport as the focus #but that interview of Owen not even knowing where his kids were 😭😭 while his dad (equally involved with the match that week as a coach) was #traipsing the kids around his opposing teams training ground? 😭#clearly a product of an approach which is like ‘no kids on game weekends’#like if the poor kids were gonna be on a training ground anyway that weekend 😭😭#oh and LITERALLY treating the kids as props when parading them around before and after matches idk man #the kids I knew who’s dads played pro rugby didn’t much enjoy being scared their dad could get permanent brain damage every week #the second they were old enough they mostly stopped going to watch matches ..

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