Just got home from our trip. I think we did 450 miles in a day - Not too bad, but still pretty exhausting. Overall it was a positive experience - We talked, slept together and had a lot of fun. I was particularly flirty and playful with her, and while she didn't respond in kind, she never told me not to do it and she just laughed and told me that it tickled at times \:\)

W and I talked a lot both there and back, but we only had R talk on the way down. The highlights I can remember

1) W asked me if I could 'move close by' when I move in January and that she didn't want me 'not to be around'.

2) W told me "I do love you, and I respect you". I'd not told her ILY at all that day, and she just came out with it. W's criteria for a relationship are "love, trust and respect".

3) W said that she has been reading a lot and understands that she is very controlling and has lots of bad habits. She also added that she does 'inappropriate' things to deal with her problems. I didn't push her to elaborate, but she has previously referred to her relationship with OM as inappropriate. She said she needs to learn how to change her habits and avoid doing things that cause more problems.

4) W added that she was wrong to not trust me and that she overreacted to lots of things because she was stressed. She also said that she had put unreasonable expectations on me that I could never live up to.

Sleeping together was nice - She told me that she still sleeps on 'her' side of the bed. We always slept pretty separate, but we cuddled together this morning for a long time before we got going. We'd not spend that much time together in a long while - Maybe a couple of months. No fighting, no stress - It was really nice.

D and I drove W back to her house, as she had left her car there - D was really upset when we left without W, so when I got home W IMed me and told me she was really upset that she had made D sad and that she was a bad parent. W found it really hard to leave D when I left, so maybe her brain is going over all of that stuff.

W also asked if she could come over on Sunday and hang out with D and I. I talked to her about going out tomorrow night together, but she said she wasn't sure when I reminded her today. I guess we will see.