noodle

I don't know where this thread should actually go, so Tilted Mods, please feel free to move it to the appropriate spot... Tilted Paranoia perhaps?

I was venting to a friend of mine about relationships and patterns of behavior at work the other day. Two other people walked in and joined in the "fun". What we were able to determine is that the whole World of Relationships appears to have a cycle. Every friend I've talked to in the past two weeks that is in a relationship appears to be having some kind of rather major issue. Post-holiday stuff aside, has anyone else noticed this?

Here's the cycle in my previous friendship/romantic relationships and a few of my friends' relationships for the past year and a half...
end of August 2004, October/November 2004, end of March/beginning of April 2005, July 2005, mid November 2005, January 2006. All of these times brought about issues that tested or ended numerous types of relationships. I tried to put it to a regular cycle (e.g. every three months, etc) and couldn't do it. There's no connection to holidays that I can really figure out given the issues that have arisen. The only common thing I can find, living in Florida, are the weather patterns--during the times that myself and my friends remembered issues, there were periods of several days to two weeks of rain/moody weather. So, I'm wondering is other parts of the world have this pattern and if it could be related to something like magnetic pull, moon cycles, some shift in the forces of the universe? Does anyone else have a discernable pattern like this? Or are all of my friends (and myself) just going nuts for no reason? I've noticed an increase in "girl trouble" posts, lately, too. But maybe I'm just projecting. Any thoughts?

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dlish

i live in sydney australia, and find that in summer my relationship tends to get rocky.. mainly cos i love being out in the sun or at athe beach or with my friends more than cosing up in winter... but summer here is dec jan feb.... maybe its not the cycles but rather what you do, in which the weather has a great part to play.

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Rodney

If you're used to sun all the time, cloudy weather and more indoor-time due to rain can throw you off. Might be a mild version of seasonal affective disorder -- the depression that strikes some people in far northern climes when the days get real short and cold, and they don't get as much natural sunshine. Some bodily processes do work best with a lot of sunlight, and it's possible that a drop in the amount that you're getting could affect your mood.

Where my mom lives, it's essentially gloomy and unpleasant from November through early March, and her mood goes right through the floor. I got her one of those "daylight" lamps that put out the same spectrum of light as natural sunlight, and she said it helps her.

Changes in air pressure and humidity, as when a new storm system moves into the area, can sometimes throw you "off" a little, too. This is my personal observation. But it seems to me that on days when the weather is changing rapidly, in an extreme way, people's behavior is also a little extreme -- a little more emotional, a little less patient.