So,
it looks like the summer may be finally over - The kids are back at school, margaritas
sipped over ice on white sandy beaches are but a distant memory and the dark
seems to fall ever sooner as we prepare for Autumn. Family life across the
country is finally back to normal.
But normal is a subjective term. For some,
normal means back the daily grind of a work/life balance. But for others,
normal means that family time is over and the delicate balance between maintaining
their homelife and their mistress can be
resumed once again. Cynical? possibly, but nearly all of our clients tell us
that the signs of a cheating partner become even more pronounced during the
holidays when families spend so much more time together and if you think about
it, it makes a lot of sense.
Take
yourself back to the early days of a relationship. It is something we have all experienced:
The excitement of being with your new beau and the longing you feel when you
are not with them, the all important contact you share when you can't be
together like texts, emails and letters and the happiness that comes from
planning new adventures together.
Now imagine what it would be like if
something stood in your way of that planning, something that dictated that you couldn't
live your life the way you wanted to. In this case, that something is a partner
and family.
Day
to day you can make excuses for your absence like meetings, trips to the Gym,
being stuck in traffic, meeting your friends after work. During the holidays,
those excuses aren't available to you and your frustration bubbles under the
surface until it can no longer be contained. It manifests itself as the
arguments that our clients tell us come out of the blue. The storming out of
the house or more passively, a general reluctance to get involved in anything
orientated towards the family.
And
then, the holidays end and everything returns to a twisted version of
normality. So, cynical? possibly. But this cynicism is only based on the lives
that our clients lead.
If
this sounds like you, maybe we should talk.
