Well I'm back in...but....

[Betterman]

So, here's a solution to one of the issues:

I noticed that she hasn't been as concerned with wearing that damn wristband all of the time now. She even went and entire weekend without putting it on. I thot that I may have actually seen the last of the thing...but she started to wear it again.

So, last nite she took a shower and took it off for that, but then left it on the counter overnight. I had to get up to "answer nature's call" and discovered it there. I began to curse the existence of it then it came to me: PUT IT ON.

So I did. Wore it all night while we slept.

This morning she is almost ready for work and at the door when she decides to run upstairs. When she comes back down she asks "You wouldn't happen to know where my wristband is would you?" So I declare back, "Yeah...on my wrist."

She looks at me for a second and then asks for it back. I playfully deny her request, saying "No, I wanna wear it." She pesters me, but not nastily or angrily, but I playfully refuse. Then my 6-yr-old daughter chimes in with "Daddy what do you have?" So I say back to her, "Mommy doesn't want to share it...now that's not nice is it?"

So my wife dropped the subject and we went to work.

We'll have to see how this plays out, but basically I want to keep wearing it to see how she reacts to that, but also to take the stigma of where it originated from it. Also, I now have an attachment to it, creating dissonance with her association to whoever gave it to her.

I'll have to keep you posted!