Something I’m not terribly good at, obviously, but you can’t help mulling them over, can you?
My father travels quite a lot in his work. Recently, I was discussing this with my mother (while he was away) and I said “But isn’t it nice to have the house to yourself occasionally?” but she said she didn’t really feel that way. I somehow think I would. Maybe I’m turning into a confirmed old bachelor(ette) or maybe it’s the introvert/extrovert thing rearing its head again, but I’m not sure that I could ever put up with having anyone around for 24 hours a day for long periods. I’ve talked about this necessity for being alone before, and I was thinking recently that having a husband who went away for periods allowing me to start missing him and then came back, but went away again before I would have time to get sick of always having him around would be ideal. Like my father used to do when he was commuting from Hamar to Oslo, he’d be home at weekends and once during the week. I think I could handle a husband like that. Not sure I could handle one that was at home every evening. Problem is, I suppose, that it wouldn’t quite work like that, as he’d be bound to be gone when I wanted him there and probably be there at times when I wanted him gone, unless I could make him come and go whenever I pleased, but that would not be so much wife/husband as mistress/slave, and I somehow don’t think I’d enjoy that, either. The other problem is if I had a husband who was away and we had kids I’d have to have the kids around all the time, which would hardly be ideal. Maybe I should aim to get a husband who can stay at home (I mean, he can go to work and all, but not travel much) and do all the travelling/commuting myself? Now there’s an idea.
Oh, just ignore me, I’m rambling.
Voice in my head: Avril Lavigne – Complicated