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Love is an active sport. There are lots of kinds of love of course. There is love of family, love of children, love of puppies, and love of life for example. But at Avocado Love, we’re interested in Love spelled with an upper case L. It’s a sport just for two, where no score is kept. Couples engage in the sport for the sheer energy and excitement of it.

The sport is enjoyed anywhere and everywhere, and spontaneity often plays a roll. Two Lovers can keep the sport alive for decades. Successful contests never end. Time outs, family breaks, and professional careers are allowed for short periods. The sport of Avocado Love may be divided into sets, quarters, innings, rounds, lengths, laps, periods, sets, or matches, according to the tastes of the players involved. The rules are easy to remember and simple to apply. There are only two.

Rule number 1: Always serve the other player first.

Rule number 2: Have fun.

Games may be enjoyed for decades when energetic couples continue to find ways of serving one another as they weave in and out of the traffic and complications of their daily lives. Couples maintain Love’s energy when they maintain focused on the sport of Avocado Love. If your attention is on serving your lover, then the daily traffic of life’s events can’t throw your stride. We should keep our partner first in our heart and mind. By focusing on our partner we serve our partner in the same way that a tennis player focuses on serving the ball.

Of course there are board meetings, childhood scrapes, auto accidents, and illnesses to deal with; life is not always played on well-manicured tennis courts. But the trick is to pick up your racquet and serve your partner first. If you do it consistently, your partner will be looking for ways to serve you. And that formula will fuel Avocado Love for a lifetime.