Hey Al,

Are you still online? I can't believe it's raining down there again- sunny(ish) and warm here. You need to move ;\) I'm just having some tea and watching the Olympics- never has boxing seemed so exciting!

Ummm, not sure about the moving up North thing. I think it was just a thing he'd been looking at for interest as there's no way he could move now- he has to get a year under his belt at least in his current job before he can realistically move. I just thought it was a small sign that he's starting to think about his future a bit rather than anything to do with me.

It WAS sweet that he sighed a little when he hugged me. He did it on Tuesday aswell but I thought it was a freak occurrence! I didn't ask the DB Coach anything about H's being mysterious though; the sessions (for me at least) are very solution based so there's no in-depth analysis of his behaviours, more just getting different ideas to try and reviewing what I tried and what did/didn't work. You're right about the joint gripes- it's to increase the connection in a slightly different way, and it was pretty good (even though H initiated it instead of me). I'm not sure I can do it every time we speak, but will try it again to confirm the results.

Thank you for being so nice about me asking him about our anniversary. I have to say that I didn't feel brave, I just thought I'd try it and see what happened and didn't think about how he might/might not react. Less brave, more gung-ho?!

What's up with you? Will you post on your thread? I'll come and visit you there.....

L. xx