While talking about his classmate's funeral, xh start wondering out loud how many people would show, what they would say, etc. Not histrionic, just the normal way you think after such an event. Anyway, he said, he knew what he would say at mine. He said that I'm one of the best people he's ever encountered, a great mother, and the only person who has always stood by him through all the crazyness and stress. I thanked him.
xh also said he knew he had been a rotten husband. I told him not always...that it had been good and fun at times. He emphasized that he had been. I told him again that wasn't true--like anything else, it had had peaks and valleys.
...more good baby steps.
(Think I need to quit writing until the beer wears off.)
