| All men who enjoy golf need to take time to play | | | | nearest golf course and sign up for a summer pass. |
| golf each week throughout the summer. I'm | | | | If you are a woman who has been hesitant to allow |
| convinced of it. As the wife of a very busy husband | | | | your man to golf, then change your mind and buy a |
| and as a family therapist, I am convinced that all men | | | | summer pass for the guy you love. We all need |
| need the break and the relaxation that comes from | | | | times away from the stresses of home and work |
| playing a round of nine or eighteen holes of golf. | | | | just to release some energy and to have fun. Golf is |
| When I was first married I would get frustrated | | | | the perfect way for men (and some women) to do |
| about my husband's sheer excitement about golf as | | | | just that. |
| each spring turned to summer. I would give him a | | | | I think it is important that men take time to golf with |
| hard time about buying a membership to a local golf | | | | other men at least one time per week. Obviously, if |
| club and I would even try guilting him out of playing | | | | we have a man that wants to golf six out of every |
| as often as I could. I didn't realize until many years | | | | seven nights in the summer then there is probably an |
| later just how important it was for me to let my | | | | issue to talk about. Men cannot use golf as an |
| husband enjoy his times of golf with other men. | | | | excuse to never be home with their families, but it |
| I've come to realize that my husbands life at work is | | | | can be a great way for them to get away and to |
| busy and stressful and that playing golf is one of his | | | | refresh themselves for the stresses of family life and |
| favorite ways to relax and to enjoy time with his | | | | for time in the office. |
| guy friends. I am no longer threatened that he isn't | | | | Men, grab a friend or two and get to a golf course |
| dying to get home at the end of each day. Instead, I | | | | soon. See how much fun you will have and how |
| see that golf is not the enemy of our family but | | | | much stress you will release on the course. You'll be |
| actually a friend since it allows our husband and | | | | so glad that you have the time to golf that when it |
| father to come home relaxed and refreshed and | | | | comes time to go home you'll have energy and |
| ready to pour more into our family. | | | | desire to spend time with the family. |
| If you are a man, then I suggest you get to the | | | | |