We talked about it on the show on Weds and Kent told me to post Laura’s response to my question. Well, I can report that she said yes. It was almost more nerve racking than asking the original question. Today is my birthday, May 28th and I am 42. I love my kids and wife, but I am really at a place where I need to get away from them. I often put it this way, “I want to miss them”. Right now I mostly just want to throttle them (I am tired of having to wash all the dishes after making dinner, getting hit in the nuts and having my neck wrenched during play wrestling and having to ask for things 5 or 6 times) I am tired. So, my family has a place in Central Oregon and I want to go there and enjoy nothing. No running water, no lights, no nothing. I can go fishing all day, hiking all day, reading all day, meditating all day (though the mosquitoes would drive me crazy.)

I will admit, when I did ask her about this I felt incredibly guilty. I felt I was screaming, “I don’t love you!” or “I don’t want to be with you.” No, I was actually saying the opposite. But we have all been taught asking for things like this is selfish. My Dad even asked if everything was okay with us when I told him I was taking off for the weekend. When I told him why I was doing it, he said, “I totally understand. Makes perfect sense to me.”

So I think things are good. I mean, Laura looks honestly pleased that I am asking for what I want. I guess I could get used to this. How do you think she will respond when I tell her I want to go to a Tropical Island with Supermodel Marisa Miller?