We listen to our girlfriends, and I've done it myself, whine about the man in our life just "checking out." Do we gripe because we are jealous? We are, you know it.
We are jealous of the freedom of dreaming outside the box. We are jealous of the irresponsibility of it all. Thinking like this doesn't fit our schedules, but could it? What do we have to lose? What are we holding so tightly to that is worth more than taking an adventure with the love of our life.
Do we skip the vacation because we aren't in-love anymore? Do we even know what love is or looks like?
I believe that as women we have denied ourselves the right to be "crazy." Our crazy has to fit society norms. That, my friends, is crazy.
Why do we want to fit the norm?
Where is that crazy high school girl in you that used to dare to be different? Nerves of steel to tackle adolescence with a reckless abandonment! That girl needs to be retrieved. That girl could save a marriage...build a life, a real one.
Next time, when you see the glazed over look in his eyes and you think nagging at him will bring him back to your reality, I beg you, don't. Go with him, ask him where he is going and if you can come. Then pull out your rocker shirt from the 80's and dare to be the girl that could turn his head.
Double dog dare you...
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