The other day Mick and I were watching Australia play Romania in the opening match of the Hopman Cup, which Australia lost. Why? My guess is they underestimated their opponent and didn’t show them enough respect. What has this got to do with marriage? Plenty. Keep reading and you will find out.
Australia was the favorites to take out the match. I think they just thought it was all going to happen for them, especially in the women’s match, which Samantha Stosur was expected to win as she had always beaten her opponent before in straight sets. Watching that match, I thought she wasn’t concentrating and switched on with her game. As a result she made basic errors on simple shots at crucial times.
We can be like that with marriage. We can take it all for granted, and expect it all to just happen without any real effort from us. So we stop working at our marriage and end up taking our partner for granted. This is not a good policy. We can be careless in what we do and that puts a marriage in jeopardy.
So Australia started one down and then Lleyton Hewitt came out to play the men’s match. He scrambled around and hit back balls he never should have got to and, at times, made winners out of them. The result was he won his match because he refused to give up. He just kept working away.
Again they are good lessons for marriage, – to keep working away, keep our minds on the task at hand and never give up. No matter what the problems are, no matter what is happening.
So by then Australia was one all and set to play the mixed doubles, at which time the telecast annoyingly went off. But the commentators were confident Australia would take it out from that point. Sadly, that wasn’t the case.
Not having seen the doubles, I can’t comment too much, except to say that on the tennis court both people in the couple have to combine and work together as a team to win the game. Again, in marriage both partners need to be working at the marriage and not leave it all to one person.
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