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Never Date An Athelete

October 11, 2014
By DaNaya Garner BRONZE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DaNaya Garner BRONZE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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You should never date an athlete. Never date an athlete because they'll never have time for you, but they'll make time for you because you're the love of their life. You spend your sleepless nights talking to him about topics only he can know of and only he knows of. You'll spend all your time with him and over time he becomes your best friend. You'll hate that every time you try to be mad at him you can't because he won't allow you to. You'll hate the fact that he never lets you keep anything to yourself. You'll think this is too perfect and you'll begin to doubt him, which is going to be the cause of many arguments. He always makes you get over them though, because he hates it when you’re not smiling. He does everything in his might to keep a smile on your face, which is the most annoying thing in the world. You’ll hate it, especially when he forces a kiss from you when you won’t look him in the eye.

His father will love you. You will love his father, but you’ll hate his son. He will actually want to know all about you. He will want to know your favorite color, food, book, movie, subject, designer, and car. He would only want to hear your voice and see your face when he's done football, basketball, baseball, or boxing practice. He'll annoy the hell out of you calling you before you go to sleep just to hear your voice and to tell you he loves you. Now, you begin to think every second not spent with you or associated with you is spent with someone else, when it's not. He's completely loyal to you & you only. You’ve never been treated this well before, so you consistently over think and it gets in the way of your relationship. So, you keep your emotion bottled up because you know it would be stupid to snap on him about hypothetical situations that you made up on your own.

It'll be horrible to know that he knows how to get emotion out of you. You'll get in a big argument about something that happened because it was caught at the wrong moment. You’ll threaten to hit him. Then he'll tell you to hit him. You'll consistently tell him no and he'll continuously tells you to. Then you cry. You’ll cry hysterically. He pulls you him to his fair skinned, muscular, tattooed arms and tells you he was waiting for that. He'll tell you that he loves you and that it's for everything that you've ever held in. That it was for all the emotion built up. Then day after day will go by and your stupid relationship will get stronger. Maybe even leading to a wedding, then you regret dating an athlete.

You regret spending your sleepless nights with him. You regret those deep conversations. You regret making him your MCM on Instagram. You regret spending every anniversary on September 20 with him, but you love him. You fell in love with an athlete. You're in love with an athlete. You fell victim to his stupid brown eyes and stupid smile. You fell victim to every time you smell his scent, melting. You fell and you fell hard.


The author's comments:

My boyfriend of one year inspired me to write this piece because I never really noticed how much he loved me and cared for me until we almost split because of me. Then, I realized not only was I the love of his life, but he was the love of my life as well.


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