If I touch her and kiss her and she snaps "What do you want?", or better yet "Stop wasting your time, you're not getting any!", it's a good indication that she really wants it. I wish I'd kept a journal for at least the past few years; I wonder how many times she was begging for it in her own way and I backed off thinking she didn't want any part of it. Now my memory of those days is kind of fuzzy. This could be a problem... I don't want to repeat them!
Oh and that "test" last night was kind of slow going, and I ended up putting it on hold to attend to something after the kids went to bed. No rush, though... I'm not going to just drop it halfway through. It'll take a few evenings at least. More on that when my efforts bear fruit.
a fine and enviable madness, this delusion that all questions have answers, and nothing is beyond the reach of a strong left arm.