Over the Shock and GALing 6

[Thinker]

So the missile has been fired - prematurely?

Sorry SP. As much as I appreciate and really like your edits, they were mostly for naught. Sometimes things just move faster than planned.

W came home and asked to talk. I had been drafting the text - a cleaned up version of what was on the post above (without the last paragraph threatening D), mainly as a way to clear up my own thoughts.

I had a draft copy printed and was reading through it.

W saw it, and asked "What's that?" "Something that I was writing, but it is not finished yet," I said "and I am not sure if I want you to read it". "Nonsense," say's she, "If you wrote it, you want me to read it" - and grabbed it and did.

I wasn't going to wrestle her to try to take it away.

She read it and cried. We agreed not to talk about point 4. It was, after all, only a brainstormed draft where I was trying to figure things out - not intended for her. I told her that the main point was that I was ready to take concrete steps to improve things. What those steps were is something we would have to work out together.

After she cried for a while, maybe I rescued her, maybe not - but I did what I wanted to do. I took a pen, flipped the paper over, and wrote 3 lines on it:

"I care about you"
"You are my family"
"I want you to be happy"

and handed the paper back to her.

She cried a lot, but didn't talk much.

We agreed to continue the discussion at C later.