How do I feel about us being apart for a couple of days? DYFF?

Dear LORD:

Be with Ruth and me as I go on this business trip. Help us to remain as connected and intimate as always. Help me not to be depressed and lonely without her. I have gotten sooooo attached to her! Help Ruth and Jeanae build their relationship further together in my absence.

Dearest Ruth:

Your MEQ today was being very fetching in the nude in the bathroom when I came in there from helping Jeanae with her homework. Wonderful!

The way I feel about being in Atlanta is depressed and lonely. Also empty. I really hate traveling without you. Can we arrange that I do not have to do this anymore?

I think having a traveling job would be fun if you could go with me on all, or at least nearly all, of my trips. I would not want to be gone 80% of the time even then. A week or two a month is plenty. I would want it to be heavy on international travel. That way we could join the 1 mile club on lots of international flights. And you would get to see lots of interesting places. I have had the chance to do that, but you have not had as much of a chance as I have. I think it would be fun for us to be together in Europe, Asia, South America and so forth, to see the way other people live and appreciate their culture. It really gives you a unique perspective.

I would love that! Wow! That would be really cool. When I think about you and I traveling together and having that experience together, get really excited.

I just do not want to travel without you though. A couple of days is my limit for sure. I think I told you I pushed back on a trip next month. I did not want to go there. It would have been three more days. In Hopkinton no less. What a desert! Nothing there to do except eat and sit in your hotel room! Blah!

So I am tending to become very scratchy when my manager tells me to get on a plane and go somewhere without you for an extended period. Now Sunil is talking about having the Q1 planning meeting in Bangalore. Fortunately, it will probably not happen for budget reasons. It would cost a fortune for us to get the team over there. Although it probably would be a good idea. However, I would certainly not want to go there without you. It would be for a couple of weeks at least. You can't really travel to India for less than that. It is another 20 hour around-the-world trip. You can literally go home in either direction and it take exactly the same amount of time. Either via Frankfurt going East or via Hong Kong going West. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. I would take 2 days just getting there.

If you wanted to go, I would love to try to do it. It would be somewhat expensive. But we could spend at least one night in each location on the outbound and return trips. I really like to spend 24 hours in Frankfurt. It is a really nice town.

So, my bottom line is that I miss you terribly. I love you dearly. And I want to be with you. When you described your evening to me today, that sounded sooooo good to me! I was jealous! I wanted to do that instead of what I am doing.

Oh well.

I feels hauntingly familiar. Just like it used to feel when I was on a business trip before. I would get out to some anonymous location where no one knows me. Where I get no hugs. And there I would be. Alone and lonely. Missing you. If anything I miss you more now. Then our relationship was way, way more stressful than it is now. I just want to be with you, hold you, kiss you, make sweet, sweet love to you, and hang out with you, cuddle with you. You get the idea. I am crazy about you!

Love,
Me