My life don't fit the book, please help.

[lester]

lol

well it's a dream not supposed to make sense. Anyways, OM is gone in the middle of BFE for 3 weeks w/o cell phone service (supposedly). So, I'm trying to delicately balance keeping boundaries, giving her space, and trying to keep the house running smoothly. I can see where she got stressed. Last night she started yelling at me about getting rid of a table she wanted me to. I told her that I'd take care of it but that she doesn't need to talk to me like that. I seemed to have scored some respect points there and she started apologizing profusely. I guess I've always been the peacemaker smoothing over everything to get everyone to play nice and am realizing that it isn't always necessary and in a lot of ways not desireable.

I know she will be having withdrawl from OM so it's kind of hard to know how to act. Been working on AS IF and taking care of my family. Another thing, she seems to be "working on us" (at least superficially) by going out to lunch with me a few times, etc. The lunches go pretty good and she hasn't said she was consciously doing that but she also seems to be half-there.

Any suggestions on pitfalls or just helpful guidance?