Neecy and Karen, thank you!

I'm glad, too, that I'm aware of this behavior of mine, and so is H. He's said to me before, "Sometimes I wonder if you even know what you're doing. If you do, then good. If you don't, we're not going to make it."

What can I do? I have a bit of my mother in me. That's not a cop-out either; just something I understand that I have to work on.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. ~ Joseph Campbell