a weekend away

this weekend scott (my husband) and i went to visit some of his college friends. they live in a small town not too far from here and it was a nice visit. we only were there for about 24 hours but it was still a good time. the couple we visited have been married for about a year just like us and it was our first weekend all together. i have been noticing lately that scott and i spend a lot of time with my friends from college but not a ton with his friends from college. it seems to me that for him still getting together with his college friends would be so much harder. for me it is still part of my normal life that some of my friends would visit. i was happy to visit some of his friends. i knew scott in college but we weren't together then and we weren't even at the same school, so being with some of his "college buddies"(as he calls them) helps me see a new side to him. scott was carefree and got to reminisce about things i don't really know about. for me, interpersonally, it was a stretch. although this couple is very nice, i don't know them very well and i had never spent an extended period of time with them. i noticed i was trying a bit harder with them then with some other people. you know, when you are with people that are just easy to be around, you just hang out you don't have to do something all the time. this was different. silences were more awkward, conflicting opinions a bigger deal. over the past few years my friends have really become scott's friends as well, i hope that is beginning to happen with his friends as well. the truth is i really had a good time this weekend even though it was a stretch. i was glad and i am still glad that we went to visit them. if anything, i got to know scott a bit better. that is always worth it!!