Comfort and joy
As you’ll probably have guessed from the lack of posts around here, I’ve had a madly busy few weeks. Deadlines played their favourite game of hiding round a corner sniggering, and then all jumping out onto me at once, yelling, “Surprise!!” They haven’t quite gone away yet, but things have slowed down a notch from mad to merely busy.
Anyway, one of the things I had on was a short workshop, at which I was speaking. For one reason or another, it was pretty intense intellectually, and because I was talking about (for me) a relatively new area, my confidence was quite low. It was really interesting, and I caught up with some old friends as well as meeting new people, but a few days of stretching both my brain and my confidence to its limits took its toll. I was exhausted.
When I walked back in the door late at night and hugged Mr. Bsag hello, I felt incredibly relieved. One of the rarely acknowledged joys of a long-term stable relationship is the comfort and stability you get from knowing that there’s one person in the world with whom you can totally relax. Whatever else may be going on, you know that you can walk in the door into another world and leave everything else outside for a while.
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Comforts such as these are to be treasured.
by Brian @ 28/06/2007 10:45 pm • Permalink •
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oh, hell yeah!
what would I do without my wonderful wife amids all those (tech-) crises?
by Tom Lazar @ 29/06/2007 12:37 am • Permalink •
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Yep, still works for me - even after 34 years!*
by Mr.D. @ 29/06/2007 11:37 am • Permalink •
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Loved this post.
by Inkygirl @ 29/06/2007 11:44 am • Permalink •
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Brian: Indeed.
Tom Lazar: Though in my household, Mr. B tends to be the one precipitating tech crises
. Otherwise, I totally agree.
Mr. D. :-D There ought to be a bit in the marriage vows about it, I think.
Inkygirl: Thanks!
by bsag @ 30/06/2007 11:07 am • Permalink •
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actually, I was just referring to the moral support my wife is able to give me, when I'm having a tech crisis... that's often more valuable than tech support
(i.e. cannot be replaced by google...)
by Tom Lazar @ 30/06/2007 7:49 pm • Permalink •
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I tried googling my wife, but she told me to act my age..........
by Jonathan Briggs @ 01/07/2007 5:40 pm • Permalink •
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ummmmm, when I'm at this site I'm relaxing... thanks a lot!
by Josey @ 04/07/2007 12:30 pm • Permalink •
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