Continued having the nice text exchange with WAW. As I said, she uttered the words "mid-life crisis" for the first time, having rejected that idea as completely ridiculous 3 months ago. Progress? Who knows?
Sent her a text that said I saw what she meant when she emailed me from her trip to Capitol City that there are a lot of reminders of "us" here. Mentioned that I'd gone in and sat down at one of "our" favorite restaurants without even thinking about it until after I'd ordered, it seemed so natural.
She texted back [text-ese translated]: "That was such a good time in our life. Not sure how to get back there."
I replied: "Seems to me the only way is to go one step at a time. We get along today, then get along tomorrow. Then we start getting along for a week, then a month...."
She replied: "Don't know when just getting along got so hard :-("
To which I replied: "I don't either, but that's in the past. Now is now. The future isn't written."
Then, when the Holocaust Museum shooting broke on the news I got an instant text checking to see if I was there (WAW knows I like to hit the museums for power-sight-seeing whenever I can).
So whatever "this" is, whatever "kind" of "relationship" this is, it's pretty tolerable right now.
It'll s*ck in major major ways in about 72 hours, but right now this Thing isn't too bad.
