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Time with

Who do you spend the most time with? – Okay question from the daily writing prompt.

I spend the most time with my better half. And how lucky I am for that. Saved my life. A beautiful family. Beauty inside and out. Fun travel companion. Great cook and homemaker. Good with our money. Compassionate and passionate. And she puts up with me.

How lucky can a man be. Yeah, like any married couple of several decades we have our moments. But I think of some of my friends and family who live alone or have chosen not to take on a partner along life and how different that has to be.

It seems so much easier to take on the world with a partner. And when you get a good one the slim chance of making it is there.

We shared this view together on the porch of the Lighthouse hotel we stayed at this week. Smoke from the wildfires in Canada had drifted into our skies.

A pair of us watching a pair flying by. Photo by Mike Hartley

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My Partner

Who do you spend the most time with? – A softball question from the Daily Writing prompt.

The answer is my better half of course. My one and only, life partner. Such an obvious answer to me now that we are enjoying retirement together. BUT!

As I thought about the actual amount of time, I quickly reminded myself of the many hours I used to put in at work each week. And the years we worked opposite shifts to raise our family without outside childcare. And even after the children were grown we both had full-time plus jobs.

Then there are the times with friends and the separate times with the kids being they both had activities and sports to practice and play.

And those thoughts scared the hell out of me because I realized we spent a lot of our waking hours apart for a lot of years. And I mean a lot of DECADES. Maybe that is why the time together seems so sweet now.

Was it difficult being apart so much, yes. Were our lives out of balance, sure was. Could we have made better use of the few free minutes we had, sure we could have but that is water under the bridge. But it’s a good message for those of you trying to balance careers, families, and keeping the bills paid. Make good use of the time you have to love as much as possible.

Do you think the young lady in the pink dress is asking her Dad for a teddy bear? Photo by Mike Hartley

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