Did you know if you walk into a home and smell fresh bread baking after 5 minutes you are no longer aware of that smell? You acclimatize, adjust to it, normalize it.
This is true of all good things we have- the people in our lives, the amazing things around us, all the good stuff.
This is why breaking away from our normal lives is so good for us. If we shake it up and change the atmosphere, the landscape, the routine we live in for a while- we come back to it all like a person walking into that fresh baked aroma for the very first time.
A long marriage has to be this way. Moments/days, even months have to exist where we can’t see the goodness and take it for granted. Also, forgive the break in the upbeat tone, let’s not forget how something foul smelling like a marriage dying, can be normalized and accepted too.
I can see everything more clearly when I get away or make change.
That’s exactly right, lady. A little distance can do wonders sometimes – it’s refreshing. And it can make a person love what they have, rather than constantly wish for what they (think) they want.
Good post!