My NFL Love Story, Part 1: Struggling to maintain an identity while an NFL wife “I don’t think I will ever get over what he did. “No NFL wife should ever live apart from her husband” she told me later. They had two young children and his position on the team was insecure, so she decided to stay in their hometown rather than follow him.
Her husband cheated on her while he was playing in another city. The stories of infidelity still seemed like stories that happened to others until one of my close friends came to me with a story of her own. A different NFL wife shared that a rookie player was asked by a married veteran to book a room in the team hotel under the rookie’s name for the married player’s girlfriend. Over the next hour, she watched married players kiss and dance with women who were not their wives. Scantily clad women, none of whom the woman recognized, followed the players. She sat in the corner of the room and watched nearly a dozen of her husband’s married teammates enter the club without their wives. She was surprised, “My husband plays for that team,” she told the manager. One NFL wife was out to dinner one night at a club when the manager said they were closing early for an NFL team party. I think it’s because the players are not away from home for long periods of time.”īut, as more and more stories of infidelity surfaced, I realized that if an NFL player wants to cheat, he can always find a way Other athletes cheat on their wives, but NFL marriages are safer than those in other sports. One wife told me, "We are so lucky to be married to such great men and we’re lucky they are NFL players and not baseball players. When they’re out of town, their time is accounted for, and the rest of the time they are at practice or in meetings when they’re not at home.” “They’re not like baseball or basketball players. “The players don’t have time to cheat,” other NFL wives and I reasoned. The fear of infidelity is ever-present among NFL wives but they downplay the risks inherent in NFL relationships and in their own relationships through group-talk. When she returned home, the locks had been changed and the other woman was living in her house.įor years, I believed that player's infidelity was an isolated incident and that the other NFL players were all good family men.
She went home for a couple of weeks to be with her family. The first time I heard of a specific instance of infidelity in the NFL was when one of my husband's teammates left his wife after she uncovered a love letter that he wrote to another woman. Part 2 on the rules of being an NFL wife can be found here. Part 1 on the struggle to maintain an identity can be found here.
Rachel foster turn up the cheat series#
This is the third in a four-part series examining the intricacies of being an NFL wife.
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