My wife and I always spent our vacations together, but this summer we could not get the time off from work at the same time. I had changed my job and that hindered my access to vacation at that time. So my wife traveled to our favorite destination, Florida to spend her vacation at a family member for two weeks. Those two weeks created a void in our lives. On reflection, I can emphatically state that our marriage and love for each other is strong.
I thought that the time was short until I realized that each day that we were apart felt like a 48-hour day and two weeks became a month in my mind. Emotionally, I felt that part of me was lost and such a feeling made me understood what "one flesh" means. Physically, I never got a good night's sleep. But things got better when I we communicated via the Internet, where we both saw and heard each other. I cannot tell the countless times we said " I love you".
Those weeks of separation showed us how we took each other for granted. We then decided that on our reunion that we would enrich our relationship even more by ensuring that each moment of togetherness be filled with joy. Those weeks made us evaluated our marriage and what each partner brought to the relationship, our value and the cost it would take to repair a marriage. In a strange sense, what appeared to be a dissapointment to us became a blessing that help us to refocused and move our marriage to a higher emotional and spiritual level. At present, being married is more than a wonderful experience. May be all relationships need that break to be refreshed.
