I've updated more with day to day details on my thread over in Newcomers. Please take a look and comment if you have time. I appreciate all input.
I must say I got a BIT of a chip on my shoulder from reading the Success Stories page on this SSM forum. I guess I was hearing all these guys talk about reading the Passionate Marriage, HOPING that their wives would be open to buying a Liberator (we own the wedge/something combo, which I think I initiated after he came to me in the last few years and said he needed things to be spicier.) Yes, I even got a little disgruntled when I heard about a man unloading the dishwasher. How sweet it would be! I am a stay-at-home mom, so it is assumed all of the house stuff is 100% my responsibility. I even take out the trash, sometimes mow the lawn, etc. Our house is not spotless, but it's pretty much all me, unless it's a marathon cleaning session due to people visiting or a party. It seems like my husband complains about our sex life when I personally am not convinced it is so bad. But, his perspective is his perspective. I am trying to respect that. For wanting those pillows so badly, he sure doesn't get them out very often. I have recently suggest he "liberate" me, and I don't think he got around to it. (We probably made love, but he doesn't get out the pillows very often.) I even suggested that he pour some honey on me and lick it off recently, and he never did. Hmmm. Laziness? He is just coming out of this fog (Walk Away Husband? Mid Life Crisis?) where he seems to have only been able to see the negative, rather than the positive.
So I'll go read this book, "How to Set Your Man's Thighs on Fire". lol! I will try to be upbeat when Joey comes home tonight. I may take tonight as "my night" and go see a movie by myself. Tomorrow can be his night, then Thursday, we can have Date Night. He doesn't like the labels of that, but it works for me.
Keep filling those LOVE TANKS and I'll keep reading. Joey has shown appreciation for me meeting him in the middle on some things, I will try to keep that up. ;-) I hope that all of our spouses continue to respond to us in positive ways.
Thanks for reading! It's fun "getting to know" everyone here.
lol! I will try to be upbeat when Joey comes home tonight. I may take tonight as "my night" and go see a movie by myself. Tomorrow can be his night, then Thursday, we can have Date Night. He doesn't like the labels of that, but it works for me.
