^^^ Absolutely true. While I am very fond of Mr travelmad478 and certainly enjoy life with him more than life without him, the whole project of folding a relationship into my already seriously overscheduled life was a massive undertaking. As it was, before we met, I was out of town (visiting friends or family, or vacationing) more or less every weekend that I wasn't traveling for business. How do you shoehorn a full-time relationship into that? Some things just ended up getting ditched, to my dismay.