Thank you, all! What a great group of people we have on here.

I am blessed.

Last nite, I decided to NOT fall asleep on the couches like we normally do, and reversed roles on my wife and announced "OK (wife), I'm going to bed. You coming with me?" She laughed, got up, and said dramatically "See?? And what am I doing, that's not so hard??" (she meant she actually GOT UP), LOL.

We went to bed (no sex), and I had a great night's sleep. I got up this morning, made the coffee, spruced myself up a smidge, and crawled back in bed with her, admonishing myself in my mind "NO EXPECTATIONS, PUP!" I teased her to get up, spooned her for a bit (which she seemed to like), and scratched her back. I could feel her tense up as if to think "Oh god, here we go, right after a night of discussing 'no expectations,'" and for that reason I decided to make sure this was just a non-sexual touching exercise and see where it goes. She enjoyed the backscratch, hinted like it was time to get up, and before I could let her leave ME, I made sure to initiate a playful PUSH out of the bed, with a "C'mon, lazybones, get up!" -- and I got up myself.

Not sure if this was the right play or not, but it felt right.

We're going to spend the day bathing suit shopping (I gave her a g/c for Mother's Day, and if you remember she said she wanted me to go shopping with her, and she would model them for me! \:D ). Then we're having D22 and D20 here for dinner, so the whole family will be together for dinner for the first time in ages. \:\) \:\)

Puppy