I was worried because my partner told me that they don’t usually like to travel and they never go on vacation. That set me up for giving myself a job to “convert” them and “show” them an extraordinary time. It shouldn’t have been that hard because we were in a tropical paradise. 

I knew that, logically, they are having a good time, because they said things like “this is so cool,” but apparently I needed more affirmation than that and I made myself miserable. Which in turn made me cranky. Which in turn made me take it out on my partner. It was an exhausting cycle and totally unnecessary.