Fearless,

Yes - you got what the "backing off" was supposed to accomplish. I don't know if H will see a ST and I can't seem to even get him alone with both of our eyes open to talk about it. Our life is so ridiculously overloaded and whatever time we aren't shuttling kids or relatives or whatever has a baby hooked to my breast or sleeping on my chest. I could just cry.

Oh yes - Our "vacation" where we might try to talk - we have three other couples with us, eight children between them and my parents going too. We plan on taking a day to go out and do stuff as a nuclear family alone but H has invited the universe so there will be no "us" time. I will wake at 6am with the baby everyday, fall into an exhausted heap with the baby by 12:00am every night and H will stay up until the wee hours of the morning playing pool with the guys then sleep until noon. This is why we won't "talk" on this vacation. That and the fact that a big throw down that ends us up in separate rooms for the night is a little embarrassing with my parents there.

Karen