How Ping Pong Can Save Your Relationships

You could be nicer and help-out a little more around the house, but your wife has been such a pain lately. She just doesn’t seem very happy- about anything.

She complains about where you park at the grocery store, ALWAYS has a better idea, and your sex life seems like a distant memory. She also doesn’t seem to appreciate the pressures you are under at work and you are starting to wonder,

“Who are you and what have you done with my wife?”

This is not an uncommon situation.

Picture each of your daily interactions with your spouse as a game of table tennis-you know, ping-pong, like the table you had set-up in the garage as a kid. Here’s how ping pong can save your relationships.

Visualize each thing you say to your spouse as a serve. You comment; your wife volleys back a response; you respond, and so on. Easy, right?

Now ask yourself. What kind of things are you saying in your serves and volleys? Are they positive, complimentary, helpful, and loving or are they rocket-like slams designed to burn the corners of the table, defeating your competition?

It’s a vicious cycle you know… trying to win every point, even when you are “right” and justified in your beliefs (“I park this far out to try and prevent door dings to your new…