101. I Accept Your Quirks Because You Accept Mine
I returned from a short vacation and decided to coin a new term—pre-travel anxiety (PTA).
Let me explain.
My husband is a nervous traveler. For some unknown reason, his PTA was particularly acute this trip. He packed two weeks before we left, and he kept reminding me to do the same; he repeatedly asked me to get our boarding passes days before we were able to do so; and he had us leave for the airport at the crack of dawn for a 10 a.m. flight. Consider that we live only 20 minutes from the airport and this was a domestic flight!
I wanted to scream at times. But I took a deep breath, decided that PTA was one of his quirks, and let it go.
“I accept your quirks because you accept mine” is a concept ...
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