Uh..... I don't think you will like what I'm saying below. Please don't beat me up too badly over it though.

Thursday afternoon when I arrived home from work, my wife and I were alone in the house and able to talk (D was still at school). I gave her the news about the MC being a no go. I reported the "creepy" factor and assured her she you would feel it too from that MC. Then I said, "I'm not sure why I thought we needed to go to an MC in the first place. This should be only our last resort. I would much rather spent the money on taking you out to diner on a 'date' anyway."

Her reaction was a delightful smile, she was even happier than when I told her I would take over cleaning the cat boxes. "Thank you for not making me go to a counselor." We were standing in the kitchen and she grabbed me and gave me a big hug. \:\)

"Counselors?... We don't need no stinkin' counselors." \:\/

We both agreed that we had been doing pretty well on our own so far. I just thought we had hit an impasse and needed help to get over the hump. A little later I brought up about the SSM book disappearing and even joked that I thought she had thrown it out of the car window on the way to her mother's house. We both had a good laugh over that one. \:D She told me she has SSM hidden so I wouldn't be constantly checking on her progress as she read it. She is almost finished reading it too. \:\)

"I need to keep reading my part, section III, the HD section. Should I just get my own copy of SSM?"

Then she said, "Let me order it on Amazon. I need to order some school stuff for D and I'll just get then. Besides, doesn't it embarrass you to buy a book like that at the book store?"

"No, why would it? Nobody pays attention to what you are getting there."

"They might do a price check on it. Attention, this guy is sex-starved, can we get a price on this book for him."

We both cracked up at this, "That's just goofy but OK you can order it online."

For now we are leaving the MC out of our life and going back to working on this ourselves. Just the thought of having to do MC again shocked her into realizing how serious I am about fixing our marriage. It was that extra little push that we needed for now.

Cinco