Let him watch the game

This may be the best advice I could ever give a woman about a man. Lean in close. Read this next sentence twice if you don't get it the first time:

Don't ever make your man miss the big game.

Women, do you want to keep your man? Do you want a man to remain interested in you? Let him watch his game in peace. Even if you're just friends, and want to maintain said friendship, let him do him during game time.

If you make a man miss his game because you want to watch Golden Girls' re-runs or the Lifetime Movie Channel, he will be more prone to do all of the things you don't want him to do.

Cheat. Lie. Manipulate the truth. Avoid you. All of these things come into play by making a man miss the game. A man and his game are like a dog and its bone. They need each other more than you'll ever understand.

How do I know this? From experience (experiences I won't detail here because they're that traumatic), and from watching female friends make this fatal mistake with their men.

Perfect example: Wildcat-Squared forced her boyfriend to watch Desperate Housewives with her during the Indianapolis-New England AFC Championship game. Remember that game? It was one of the greatest football games ever played (and the main reason Randy Moss is going Randy Moss circa 1998 on defensive backs in New England).

Meanwhile, Wildcat-Squared's man watched Eva Longoria and company. Left to only see the SportsCenter highlights, he could only think of what his night could have been. She initially told me about this that night as I was coming down from my "watching the game" high.

I damn near cursed her out.

"Your relationship might soon end because you made him miss this game, you know this right," I said?

She didn't believe me. Now, they're still together, but their relationship has changed. He brings up her making him "miss" the game every chance he gets. He won't allow her near him during gameday. She must stay at her place, he at his, and understandably so.

He won't make the same mistake. I can't explain it better than I did with the man/dog analogy. It's just innate.

Women, take heed.

Learn who your man's favorite teams are. Don't make him miss their attempted triumphs. Know when the playoffs of the NBA, NFL, NHL, Major League baseball, college football and basketball are. Let him watch. If his team makes it into one of this arenas, pretend like you know what's going on at least. Be excited with him.

Don't just go in the other room and turn on that same Lifetime Movie you saw last week or the one you haven't seen yet. You already know how they both end. The man is a bad guy who beats his wife and she is viewed as a great person for escaping the hands of despair and death.

You don't know it, but if you make him watch Lifetime during the "big game," he might start having these homicidal thoughts about you. Don't be that woman. Don't do it.

It would behoove you.