Let me just pull over...

[Trade_nancy]

I think you need to expect good days and bad days. Don't expect to ride the twists and feel good about it all the time - as someone else just mentioned = he's tired after work and goes slower.
Some days I just can't get my head right and don't ride confidently the entire ride and am just grateful to get home! Other days I am into it. You need to adjust your body physics to your brain state and ride according to your body to brain switching speed.
Cornering on the highway is scary until you learn the tricks like reading past the corner...always focusing well ahead instead of readign the road in front of your wheel...Hope you also are using counter-steering? In my ignorant earlier days I didn't and was fairly spooked by even gentle curves - particularly downhills with a curve...

[Splineman]

I can sympathize with the op.
A few weeks ago had a nice day ride from Palmy to Napier, up to Taupo and then back home over the desert rd.
A ride I do regularly.
Anyway half way up hwy #5 to Taupo it pissed it down and the road has changing surface and a bit of roadworks and a lot of logging truck dripping diesel
Normally wet roads are not an issue for me, and yes I have decent rubber, but on this occasion i simply didn't enjoy the situation at all.
I slowed up and let faster traffic through. Stopped a couple of times to rest and stretch and eventually got out of the rain and into Taupo. Probably all was well with the situation and I was certainly cautious, but I reckon sometimes your imagination can get the better of you and you "tighten up" on the bike.
Sure, some will argue this and that technique, but we are all human and on the day you feel the way you do. My point is basically we need to recognise the much lower traction in the wet and so slow down. Stop and rest. Relax.

Most ride too fast in the wet.....just my personal opinion, experience.

Cheers

[george formby]

I like riding in the rain but fully get where the OP is at. Some days wet or dry everything feels crap. Not pleasant.

Otherwise I see only a slight difference between wet & dry on public roads, you still never know what is round the corner & have to ride accordingly. Rain lessens visibility so speed has to drop to compensate. Slippy is slippy regardless of what causes it so ride on the grippy bit & always be smooth on brakes & throttle, wet, dry or dark when can't tell $h!t about the road surface.