Big League Relationships

Relationships are like baseball. For a man, it's all about the big shot power game. Step in the box, dig in, and give it your best swing at the first good thing you see. Sometimes you miss, and sometimes you hit a home run. Often when missing, a man can give you a mitt full of excuses as to how if something were to be different about the pitcher, or the umpire, or the weather...that ball would have been outta here. And for a lot of men who hit that way, a million strikeouts is worth the one time they score. It isn't about the respect of the pitcher's ability that he may or may not be a qualified equal match. It's about him and his ability. Now, when the man does step up to the plate and sees the ball as if it were moving at Matrix like slow motion, he can thrust it out of the park with that sweet perfect swing. And what does he do then? Trots confidently, arguably arrogantly, around the bases in self-adoration as if to say, "Yes, this is me. I did it." Men, whether women choose to acknowledge the fact or not, validate themselves on the caliber of woman that they can "get." Be it a date, in bed, or in marriage...relationships are self-justifying. But, is anything wrong with that? Don't women want to make their men proud to be with them?