Yeah, but you haven't got kids mate, & you're not married.
You have kids & a wife & then almost every one of your priorities change, but you still need to find time to watch the match.
You're married & you become part of her family so have two sets of invitations to party's & gatherings that you're obliged to attend.
Meanwhile your wife has the same priority change to the kids as you, but even more extreme. Its primal, men put our kids first, obv, but still try to find time for ourselves. Women, esp when the kids are younger, seem to think every spare moment should be family/quality/making memories (inset cliche here) time at the expense of everything else, cos that's what they feel.
It takes a stubborn attitude & a bit of time to have them realise that men can do both family time & watch the match a couple of times a week.
It all comes to a head when there's a clash or potential clash between a match & something she wants or needs to do with the baby or kids.
We've had more arguments about family party's that have been arranged during a match in the 14 years we've been together than we have about anything else. It's pretty much the only thing we ever properly argue over. I compromise occasionally, but if it's a big match I refuse to miss it.
All her family being bitters makes it more awkward for me cos they're much likely to schedule party's during our matches cos they do it to avoid the Everton game, which obv means it's often on the same day as we play. They're now used to me leaving early, turning up late, or not coming if there's a Liverpool match on. Thankfully I do a shitload of other stuff for the family so my stock is high enough to get away with it without being slagged off.
