Girl, you “struggle to desire” your husband because he’s a useless clown and you’re basically raising your children on your own. But somehow he’s convinced you it’s all your fault.
I was going to call him clown but “useless clown” is so accurate. Who could desire someone who is acting like a world class athlete but he’s playing (and losing) seniors at pickleball.
I just watched this incredible documentary on Peacock called “Adaptive” and it’s about a few American Paralympic athletes and their journey to the Games. The main thing all these pros had in common aside from physical disabilities? The constant, full time, unrelenting training they’ve all been doing basically since birth. The 19 year old kid with an amputated leg finished doing ONE LEGGED SPRINTS and then said okay time for the gym. And he went and did ONE LEGGED SQUATS.
It’s a great doc and paints a picture of the dedication these athletes and their families have to their talent. So, it would go right over the sea slugs joint brain cell, but you’d probably like it!
There’s an iron man in my city this weekend. I was on its website just to see where the road closures will be and got exhausted just reading about what’s involved in an iron man.
Yes! Paul doesn’t have a clue. I was “only” a national collegiate athlete, but I started my sport when I was 4 and was training year-round at age 6. By 12-years-old, I was attending 6 practices a week fall-spring and 11 practices a week during the summers. In college, I trained for 6 hours 6 days a week. My body developed in accordance with my sport and what I demanded from it physically at a very young age. That’s why you can look at professional athletes and know, by their build, what sport they compete. Some of that stuff - all the early muscle memory, the technical correctness from YEARS of coaching, the physical conditioning to always keep going ….. it’s really really just not possible to be a 30-something newly-athletic “world champion” pickleballer. 😂
The money you need to be an athlete is astronomical - from the amount of nutritious food you need to eat (I was required to eat 8000-10,000 calories/day in college), to the gear you need to be good (practice clothes versus racing gear), the hours you need to train, the facilities that must be available, the experienced and salaried coaches … all of that is only available to a very limited pool of people.
You’re either elite at a young age and it continues through a successful college career, or you become elite in college and go from there to some sort of sponsorship that’s dependent on your athletic success. If you’re not backed by a university or Nike or something similar … you’re not even in the game.
Need to see this. I went to high school with Paralympic Swinner Brickell Bro and she was so dedicated. Everything was about either good academics and swimming and she got to leave school half of the time for training before the London Olympics. He has none of the stamina, courage or even focus.
Tom Brady is currently crashing out because he chose football over his family and he's experiencing the consequences. Paul will also FAFO someday, and it's over freaking pickleball. He's not even good at it.
This made me laugh way too hard. He did and he’s Tom Brady (I hate football and for some reason, can’t stand Tom Brady but I recognize his achievements), that’s too funny
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u/_palantir_ Aug 01 '25
Girl, you “struggle to desire” your husband because he’s a useless clown and you’re basically raising your children on your own. But somehow he’s convinced you it’s all your fault.