Things are moving along ok at the moment. We are getting on well and I am looking forward to getting back to Australia in a few weeks. Still some tensions regards our financial position in that we have so many outstanding bills and I am waiting for the first money to come in through the business here. Hopefully this will happen this week and the worst will be behind us (I find this out tomorrow so fingers crossed). I ahvent seen a paycheck now for 16 months and it is getting harder to come up with excuses to the people I owe money too. Oh well hopefully over soon.
My wife and I interactions are getting better and we seem to be getting very comfortable with each other again - to the extent that some of the old jokes we used to share are coming back into our conversation. My wifes move is finished and she is busy unpacking boxes in the place we have rented (which I havent seen yet) until we ca move back into our house next year.
I am finding a useful tool is to continually put myself in her position when she is upset and see how I would feel. This might sound awefully simple but i am male after all and these simple things sometomes illude us. The couple of times she has got upset she has always apologised to me as well - which is a big step forward.
Another big suprise this week was she actually opened up a bit about her business and asked my advice. This for us is very big as she locked me out of this completly before. I wont push this but let her invite me in as she sees fit - the old me would have jumped into this scenario with a bunch of suggestions that she would have seen as me being controlling - so learning here as well.
Hope all is well with everyone and I will be cracking a bottle of champagne or scotch this week when we finalise all the funding issues. Another nice plus is it looks like I may have to go to Geneva this week coming up - this is a place I have always wanted to go.
Andrew
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To go forward you have to put the past behind you
