Steve Mellalieu, Professor in Sport Psychology and the Associate Dean for
Research for the Cardiff School of Sport, notes that the nature of elite sport — specifically the
intensive focus on training and performance and the eternal
demand for complete commitment — means that players have little opportunity to contemplate what might lie beyond; Garner has confessed, «I never thought about what I'd do after playing.
Qualitative and quantitative
research has suggested that married couples handle the increasing
demands of
intensive parenting norms and work expectations by reducing spousal time (e.g., the time that spouses spend alone with each other).