Excellent points. The pandemic seems to be taking away some crutches people were using to avoid the effort you point to.
What's interesting to me is that my relationship with my wife has never been better than during this crisis. Since we can't eat out so much, we've begun charcoal grilling every evening, and it's turned into a kind of ritual we do together. She preps the food while I dump the ashes, clean the grill, get it ready and lit. Then we sit and chat while we wait for the coals to be hot enough, hang out with an evening beverage, cook, eat, and clean up together. It's my favorite time of the day every day.
I'm pretty sure that even if restaurants go back to normal, we'll go even less than before the pandemic. We can cook a meal on our little grill that rivals any restaurant's food, and it's just me and my sweetie.
Excellent points. The pandemic seems to be taking away some crutches people were using to avoid the effort you point to.
What's interesting to me is that my relationship with my wife has never been better than during this crisis. Since we can't eat out so much, we've begun charcoal grilling every evening, and it's turned into a kind of ritual we do together. She preps the food while I dump the ashes, clean the grill, get it ready and lit. Then we sit and chat while we wait for the coals to be hot enough, hang out with an evening beverage, cook, eat, and clean up together. It's my favorite time of the day every day.
I'm pretty sure that even if restaurants go back to normal, we'll go even less than before the pandemic. We can cook a meal on our little grill that rivals any restaurant's food, and it's just me and my sweetie.
See, you make the antithesis of my point exactly! In the pandemic, you have found an opportunity to do MORE of what strengthens your relationship, rather than being caught off-guard, unable to avoid the issues. People would do well to emulate your approach. Thank you.
What you are calling love chemistry is why a relationship begins. Bonding is what makes the relationship last.
Yeah, great way to put it.
Lemmie wrote:See, you make the antithesis of my point exactly! In the pandemic, you have found an opportunity to do MORE of what strengthens your relationship, rather than being caught off-guard, unable to avoid the issues. People would do well to emulate your approach. Thank you.
Thank you! I hadn't really thought about it in those terms until you brought up your point.