Motivated Mom is absent this weekend - visiting friends in the mountainous terrains of upstate Pennsylvania.
There's something about one's significant other being away that makes the house feel different. A quiet settles in that is both relaxing and unnerving.
The relaxation comes from things like choosing to wait for a couple hours after a meal to wash the dishes, choosing not to return the dozen decorative pillows to the bed after rising, or choosing to set the volume on the surround sound to levels that would preclude conversation if Motivated Mom were around.
Yet the absence of Motivated Mom's footsteps in the hall, or her yawn coming from the bedroom, or the fizzling in the kitchen as she pours Caffeine Free Diet Coke into a glass of crushed ice results in an unnatural silence. A silence so loud that I cannot help but realize an important of me is missing, that I am incomplete.
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