Sage,

Quoting Sage:
I went back and reread your first post on this topic...you said "in response to a specific question", w answered....

If you care to share, what was the specific question?
I wish I could remember exactly, but I don't. As best I can recall, I think I asked her how she felt about our M, and her answer (whatever it was) seemed unsatisfactorily vague to me, so I then asked her if she was committed to me, to which she said, "yes". Realizing that I really hadn't asked the question in a way that would provide more information (i.e., being "committed to me" could have meant anything from a weak, "committed to not leaving", to the more ideal "committed to making this the best M ever!"), I then said, "what are you committed to?", to which I got the "trying to make our M work".

Brian