230406 What I learned in my studies this morning 3

Sliding into first.

— Crack! — the ball goes high, higher....

Sliding into third.

Thoughts:

Thoughts I'm not generally interested in baseball....

Even though baseball isn't usually my thing, I can appreciate that my attitude changes to it according to the situation.  Most days, I never even think about it.  Other days, something forces it into my consciousness such as an invite from a friend to Dollar Dog Night at the Ballpark.

The point is that things change from day to day or hour to hour.  The same applies to relationships.

Mostly inverse to how I feel about baseball, my relationship with my wife is 90% love and affection, 5% indifference, and 5% problems.

The core though, the foundation of who we are together, is so deep and so solid that even those times when we manage to royally piss each other off, we know, definitely know, that there's no question we will rebound from this and make good our commitment to each other.

We know that bad times will come up. We accept that. We understand that we can't be moon-eyed for each other at all times. It just doesn't work that way.  So we're good with it . . . even the bad parts.

“When you love someone,” she writes, “you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to.” ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From The Sea

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