{"id":219933,"date":"2025-12-07T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219933\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:56:12","slug":"dear-mary-my-boyfriend-and-his-family-and-friends-are-obsessed-with-rugby-and-talk-about-it-non-stop-i-feel-ive-nothing-in-common-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219933\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: My boyfriend and his family and friends are obsessed with rugby and talk about it non-stop. I feel I\u2019ve nothing in common with them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;If any of your children were to show an interest in rugby, you will have a built-in cheerleader for them.&quot; Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/95425c51-d7dd-4e2a-9292-9c45923e847c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;If any of your children were to show an interest in rugby, you will have a built-in cheerleader for them.&#8221; Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: I have known my boyfriend for many years and he is a very good provider. He cares for me and my children from my last relationships. He works hard and gets us everything we want and is a patient \u2018dad taxi\u2019 for the kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He LOVES rugby. I do enjoy seeing him get excited about matches and he seems to enjoy it a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;If any of your children were to show an interest in rugby, you will have a built-in cheerleader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746,59820],"class_list":{"0":"post-219933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-mary-oconor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115677691118273507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}