Advice!! Guy I鈥檓 dating is obsessed with football?

Hi,





I never thought I would have this dilemma but I am!! I鈥檓 28 yrs old and I have started to date a really great guy. I mean he is lovely and sweet etc etc and I always knew that he liked football but didn鈥檛 realise how much till just now!!! I鈥檝e been trying to book a wknd and told him to give me a few wknds that he is free. I鈥檓 trying to be a little casual because I don鈥檛 want to be too much- we鈥檝e only just started a 鈥榬elationship鈥?He tells me okay this wknd will work and then later on said oh sorry, there might be a game on let me get back to you鈥? I didn鈥檛 realise he meant football!!! I mean I was even trying to be all good and suggest meeting up in the evening as I KNOW that he plays footy with his local friends on a Saturday morning and I鈥檝e always been okay with that but I didn鈥檛 know that evenings would be out too. I suddenly had a moment of complete realisation when I thought, oh dear so this is what鈥檚 it going to be like. Football season will dictate all our wknds of when we can do stuff or whether he will come out with me to parties/birthdays/wknds away. It might sound really silly I know!! Just it all fits. Him suggesting mid week meets up sometimes Friday maybe even a Sunday but he never said abt a Saturday before till I asked just now. We started our relationships over summer whilst footy was on a break so I didn鈥檛 get 鈥榠t鈥? I don鈥檛 know if he gets tickets for every game so physically goes on wknds or he just goes to the pub with his friends to watch it.





I think I even know what most of you are going to say- it depends how much I like him and want to be with him鈥? Then I have to suck up the footy aspect and live with it. But we鈥檝e only just started seeing one another and I just had this really funny picture of me fuming because every wknd he will be his friends for footy and I never get to plan anything unless he isn鈥檛 watching football!





Anyone else in a similar situation??


Advice!! Guy I鈥檓 dating is obsessed with football?
I read your story and it sounds like the story of my life! I have been with my man for almost three years and I'm fed up with it. At first I didn't mind but now and I despise it and the lifestyle that goes with it. If you're already fed up with it after such a short time you should just end it because I think footy will always come before you.Advice!! Guy I鈥檓 dating is obsessed with football?
Talk to him about it, like Katsum said, he will have to be willing to compromise otherwise he clearly isn't worth it
The point to realise now is that he will never change - or at least you have to assume that - can you put up with it or not?
tell him how you feel and thro a football at his head make a bet with him see if he can give football up for a week or summet.. compremise?
suggest him watching the highlights on match of the day instead.
So break up with him if it's that big of a deal.





Oh, and don't call it ';footy.'; That's annoying.