My guess is that it's a lot easier to distract yourself with BIG events but the day-to-day is where the rubber meets the road. That's the hard part - that's the part that requires change. The big stuff is fun, random, a one-off many times. "Every day" involves schedules, communication, etc. A lot more hangs in the balance than just having fun, kwim? Even in RAH's most active point in addiction we could take a day trip or vacation & have amazing fun & few worries, but the minute we were back at home we would shift right back into the same old dysfunction.
For a long time I thought it was because we were just SO stressed & NEEDED those getaways. {snort} Um, no. We just ran away from our problems & then they were right there in our faces when we returned, ha!