Whore/Madonna

[Heywyre]

Well, today was a pretty good day. My students are in their practicum so, except for a few phone calls I had to make, I had the day off - so did H. We went out for tea this morning and met up with a couple of the "guys" and sat around chatting for a while. Then we left there and went to the garden centre to pick up some soil and some tomato cages. Got home, worked in the garden for a couple of hours and then sat on the deck and had a cold drink. Later we grabbed some fish and chips and came home.

H has to work tonight so he had to hit the sack early. When he was going to bed he said "I really like our home, its cozy".

He said "I don't know what it was about that other city, it was like there was something evil there". It's weird, he has said that a couple of times in the last little while (referring sometimes to the OW as being "evil") Then he said "I never want to go back there - "there" being the deep state of depression he was in (he refers to it as a "black hole")

We moved from a much larger home to be closer to family and friends after the A, and to deal with H's depression and post traumatic stress due to our car accident so we had to scale down to afford this place. It's ok because the other house was too big anyway and this is more "us" and we absolutely love the backyard/garden.

I told him I was glad that he felt better here and he said "this is all we need" (in reference to the house being smaller and then he said, "and besides, we have each other and that's all that matters" - that in itself made my heart swell