How to Know If You Can Withstand Someone: Take a Road Trip Together!

I was watching the "Oprah and Gayle's Big Adventure today on the Oprah Winfrey show, and during this road trip Oprah and Gayle had a moment where the two of them got on one another's nerves! This gave me the greatest idea, or should I say plan for educating J . I figured that if you truly wanted to know how well you could withstand someone-Take a road trip! I say this because when you are in closed-in situations with a person, you tend to see the good and worse sides of them.

You don't actually have to take a road trip, you can just spend some time with someone in a close-in area, such as a hotel room, car, elevator or any place neither of you can easily escape; And soon, you both will tend to wear on one another.

I know first hand of this because our family travels a lot. We have family in Alabama, and usually that's 15+ hours worth of riding in a closed-in vehicle. Gosh, I do not have to tell you how exasperating and tiresome that can be. Not forgetting to include the fact that you may be cramped for space.

I just returned home from one of those trips, and let me tell you; I was aggravated until I wanted to scream to the Heavens for even being kin to some of the passengers! Babies crying, children needing to stop for the bathroom, and young adults listening to rap music for the entire trip; I thought I would die! Or either kill one of them. Usually I am able to sleep the entire trip, but not this time! I soon realized that I could not spend that much time so close to them. Don't get me wrong, I love my family dearly, but I will nearly bite my thumb off if I had to travel a long distance with them again. I like my rap music to an extent, as well as Hip Hop, but to have the same songs repeating over and over will wear on your approval of some of these songs.

Another episode I've witnessed this sort of situation was being on a trip with some co-workers to Florida. We were there for a seminar that lasted nearly two weeks. Oh My Goodness! I ended up wanting to choke some of those people, and of course a few of them did tie up into a fight a few times! It was hilarious, but it just went to show that once people spend too much time together, they usually end up irritating one another.

To prove my point, I want to say that generally when you wake up with a person, spend most of the day seeing and interacting with them, eating your meals with them, and then finally going to bed with them in the same area, you get too much of them and turn against them. Plain and simple: You don't like them anymore! Simply because you're seeing too much of them. You start to see their worst sides; How they snore when they sleep; how they eat with their mouths open; how they never clean up after themselves; how they have certain body odors, mood swings and so on and so on. Almost until you grow insanely hateful towards them. But you don't actually hate them, you hate the things they do, or they things they say. It's like "Argh!"

I would suggest to anyone who is thinking on getting married, or even just thinking of moving in together-Place yourselves on a trial run-basis. Go somewhere neutral, like a hotel room and spend a week with them; You will soon find out things about them that you never noticed before. Trust Me!

Have you ever loved someone or favored them so much that you didn't think you could ever get angry at them? Well, try this little experiment, and let me know how you feel about them after that trial-run is over.