My wife and I have been married for just about a decade.
She comes from a culture that is well known for their desire to travel the world. I am from the Midwestern US.
Over the last 10 years, we have traveled to some amazing places - indescribable sunsets - the tops of some of the highest mountains, the sunrise over the Gulf of Alaska, the Southwest US, the Northwest US, all over the Southern and Eastern US, Maine, Boston, Vermont New Hampshire, Quebec, Ontario, all over Germany and the Netherlands, Iceland, Caribbean and Bermuda, DR, Jamaica, Mexico... on and on. You get the picture.
I've come to like our travel over the years, but I've developed a major fear of flying over the last few years after a few turbulent flights and all of the bad press over the last year about the aviation industry - and to some degree, I'm starting to feel worn from the traveling at the same time. In the beginning, I liked to be `able to tell others` about all of the things we were doing and seeing - but these days it's become a lot less about that - and more about what I really want to see on a very personal level - and frankly, my list is dwindling. I am getting tired of constantly running on our vacations. I am definitely sick of flying. With the cold winters where we live, I'm tired of traveling to cold climates.
I've made enough comments that despite having a full plan from now until next summer full of travel - she knows that I am less than enthusiastic about it. We'll be in BC in a few weeks, and in a couple months in the Caribbean, after that, Europe again. She's frustrated with me and is making comments like "that's not the way I bought you" - which is a funny, yet serious statement from her. It leaves me feeling very bad about letting her down, but, people change. I'm worn out from travel. I hate flying now.
Before anyone says it - traveling alone is not an option for us.
It's kind of an odd problem - but one that I feel hanging in the air when we are together these days. Has anyone been here? How did you work through it?
She comes from a culture that is well known for their desire to travel the world. I am from the Midwestern US.
Over the last 10 years, we have traveled to some amazing places - indescribable sunsets - the tops of some of the highest mountains, the sunrise over the Gulf of Alaska, the Southwest US, the Northwest US, all over the Southern and Eastern US, Maine, Boston, Vermont New Hampshire, Quebec, Ontario, all over Germany and the Netherlands, Iceland, Caribbean and Bermuda, DR, Jamaica, Mexico... on and on. You get the picture.
I've come to like our travel over the years, but I've developed a major fear of flying over the last few years after a few turbulent flights and all of the bad press over the last year about the aviation industry - and to some degree, I'm starting to feel worn from the traveling at the same time. In the beginning, I liked to be `able to tell others` about all of the things we were doing and seeing - but these days it's become a lot less about that - and more about what I really want to see on a very personal level - and frankly, my list is dwindling. I am getting tired of constantly running on our vacations. I am definitely sick of flying. With the cold winters where we live, I'm tired of traveling to cold climates.
I've made enough comments that despite having a full plan from now until next summer full of travel - she knows that I am less than enthusiastic about it. We'll be in BC in a few weeks, and in a couple months in the Caribbean, after that, Europe again. She's frustrated with me and is making comments like "that's not the way I bought you" - which is a funny, yet serious statement from her. It leaves me feeling very bad about letting her down, but, people change. I'm worn out from travel. I hate flying now.
Before anyone says it - traveling alone is not an option for us.
It's kind of an odd problem - but one that I feel hanging in the air when we are together these days. Has anyone been here? How did you work through it?
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