Home Alone

Hannah and Nathan are out again tonight. They’ve gone on a church-organised nature walk on the North Norfolk coast. I think they get to wonder at the marvels of nature and then have a guy in a collar tell them it was all made by God.
I’ve never understood why loving someone should mean you have to do things that are totally against your instincts? Hannah is about as interested in nature as I am in Belgian pottery, but she was getting ready with a level of excitement normally only seen in Catholic priests before choir practise. It’s sweet that she’s doing things he likes because she’s enamoured, but if they’re still together in three years time, and she’s still doing things just because he likes them, then she’ll be hating him for it. I may not have a history of long-term relationships, but I’m a good observer, and that one’s obvious.

RC 19-5-10