The Ballroom Dancers Syndrome.

Karen and Tom met at ballroom dancing lessons. They become good at dancing. They spent a lot time together. There was romance in the air and all the other dancers haled the new queen and king. Perhaps behind the enthusiasm there was latent jealousy. Two of the boys think that if they could dance better, Karen would have warmed to them. Three of the girls think it is not fair Karen got a boy after joining so soon. They don’t they like her revealing clothes and her new aloofness. 

So Karen and Tom get married and live happily ever after. Wrong! About a year after the Cancun wedding Karen doesn’t come to the dances and then Tom stops. They both appear at the Valentine Dance but don’t actually dance much. A few years later you hear Tom re-married went back to dancing but his new wife is big with embroidery and hates dancing. Some one heard Karen was running an equestrian centre with her new partner. 

Karen conveniently married her dance partner. Her Grand-Aunt would might have counselled her against such a marriage. 

“What happens when the dancing stops?” 

Karen and Tom learnt that one passionate interest is not enough to fuel a marriage. You will see Karens and Toms at most activities; the tennis club, in scuba diving groups, at triathlon races and snow shoe running clinics. Now don’t rich and famous actors and actresses marry? Yes, but that is just more of the more ballroom dancing syndrome and being rich and famous does change things. Now I like horse riding, my wife likes dancing. We both cycle and snow shoe but not together We both don’t go to hockey games but I would like to know whose turn is it to take out the garbage?


© John Joyce   2 March 2022   


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