He Turned His Physical Health Around And Ran A 5K, But His Wife’s Upset That He Didn’t Give Her The Medal He Won From The Race
This man is currently married with two kids, and for the past year, he has been on a self-improvement journey.
After he and his wife had their second child, he realized that he was going to be 65-years-old once his daughter eventually headed to college.
“And so if I want to walk her down the aisle, I better change my life. I was pre-diabetic, obese, and had stage 1 hypertension,” he explained.
But, over the past year, he’s been able to lose over 40 pounds. His A1C levels are now normal, and his hypertension is completely gone. Nowadays, he goes to the gym anywhere between two and five times a week, and his physical health has significantly improved.
Additionally, he has completely turned around his ability to run during workouts. Back when he was 19, he actually broke his ankle, underwent two surgeries, and was only able to run for about five minutes before he began suffering “agonizing pain for days.”
Today, he’s able to run for about 20 minutes without experiencing any pain whatsoever.
Anyway, while he was living in San Francisco about eight years ago, he tried to run a 5K race with some coworkers, but it did not go as planned.
“I limped across the finish line in about 47 minutes and was in agony. We have since moved away, but that race always bothered me,” he recalled.
Then, just last week, he needed to travel to San Francisco for work, and it felt like an opportunity to redeem himself. He found out that the San Francisco Marathon was occurring over the weekend. So, he wound up asking his wife if she could stay the weekend in order to run in the 5K race on Sunday.
Drobot Dean – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
His wife was totally on board, too, and thought that was a great idea. He also asked her to join him, but she claimed she was too busy with work.
“So, I stayed over by myself and did the 5K race in a respectable 33 minutes, with no pain. I was so proud of myself!” he said.
Afterward, he traveled back home, and while he was unpacking his luggage, he decided to take out the medal he won in the race and put it on.
At that point, his wife saw the medal. That’s why he took it off, showed it to her for a couple of seconds, and then put the medal back on around his neck.
Well, to his surprise, she actually became really upset and thought that he was just giving the medal to her when he took it off.
“I told her that I earned it, and I wasn’t about to give the symbol of my accomplishment to her,” he revealed.
“She didn’t compliment me at all. Frankly, I found the idea of giving it to her offensive.”
Unfortunately, his wife didn’t agree with him on this, and she’s been sleeping separately and giving him the cold shoulder ever since.
She claimed that giving her the medal would have been a symbol of how much he loved her.
“But I find it very selfish to even suggest it,” he vented.
Still, with their relationship on the rocks over this, he’s now wondering who’s really in the wrong here.
Can you understand why he’s so proud of his performance in the race and wants to keep his medal? Why do you think his wife expected him to give it to her?
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