Fresh from a date night last night with my one and only, reading Ane Malan’s article “Romance does not take a vacation” on Date Night Ideas SA, made me think. The sentiment is a good one because love shouldn’t take a vacation. It should be an everyday bread-and-butter essential in your life.
Fast forward to the real world where your husband works 12 hour days and fills the rest of the time with some random sporty activity. The washing machine breaks and it seems that the ceiling is about to collapse. Sadly the blue colour on the Plascon swatch looks nothing like the real thing – the bright turquoise bedroom wall gives me a headache when I lie on my left side. These are the times when romance definitely is on vacation. Absent With Out Leave.
Romance needs a vacation as much as slap chips need vinegar. The one is unthinkable without the other. We need to get away to remind ourselves why we fell in love in the first place. Without deadlines and pressures, surrounded by a beautiful natural setting, we take a step back and realise he is still looking pretty good for his age. His jokes are still funny. And he brews a mean espresso.
Journalist Susan Haydn delivers a compelling argument for relationships in 5 Things you need to know to live happily every after. The take home for me is
“Make kindness the default mode. What you have is special and might not come around again, so guard it with your life.”
With Easter around the corner, take your romance on vacation. Book that special getaway; lie down on a Spa bed and massage the cares away. Heck, even a picnic in your back garden with a string of fairy lights mimicking the view of Cape Town at night from Blouberg will do the trick. Take your love on a vacation. Something or someone worth this much is worth the investment.
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(Click HERE to read the lovely “ Romance does not take a vacation”. )
