acceptable activity.

Some people on the board (I won’t say who) failed to discuss football sufficiently in their courtship and ended up marrying a woman who thinks watching football is a huge waste of time.

So whenever anything of perceived relative importance comes up and conflicts with a game, the game will always be dismissed as unimportant, and the conflicting event will always be considered the priority, and the game being on the calendar is irrelevant.

The bigger lesson to be learned is to teach our children to discuss with their future spouses the things they feel are important to them, to get the spouse to buy in and agree to prioritize those things, or even better, find someone who also finds those things just as important to them.