A dip, after damp, delightful

It's been incredibly wet and windy the past two days, and for some reason I have found that a relief. I love Summer, and I love being hot, but it's been so nice to have a bit of a respite, and I feel pathetic for saying that after barely a month of good weather. I've been in the sea again today, which has also helped my mood, because it suddenly got out bright and beautiful this evening, which pretty much negates what I wrote in the first few sentences of this posting. Anyway, the point I was going to make before I changed tack on myself completely, is that when we have nice days it adds a bit of pressure to everything. We don't have many Summer days that are actually like Summer, so we all feel we have to make the most of them and we charge around instead of just enjoying it. And working in the holiday trade, I feel pressured more than most, as it's not just about me getting the benefits, it's about the families that have paid good money and want a chance to actually DO stuff while it's 20+ and sunny.
God, I've done more than 3,500 entries on this blogsite now - I wonder how many of them have been about the weather?

So, in other news, things have been very pleasant on the domestic front this week. Conversations have happened, fun evenings have been had, and we seem to have broken the atmosphere of weirdness by just refusing to engage with it and acting as if it never happened; which I think might be a good policy sometimes in a long marriage. There will always be occasional downturns, but you don't have to overanalyse and review them, you can just enjoy the fact that they've passed. If you keep revisiting them, surely it extends them? And normally it's just 'a thing' that hasn't been caused by any fault, and if you start trying to work out what went wrong, then someone has to be to blame, and then it becomes a different issue. If you can just accept that 'a thing' happened and be glad that you've both got through it and stayed together, isn't that better than dragging it up again and again and prolonging the pain?
Man, sometimes it amazes me that I'm NOT a successful marriage counsellor.

RC 23-8-24
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