Wow Andrew, what a topsy turvy adventurer you have been on!! It really shows from reading your posts how far you have come. With your wife pushing the financial independence, spending $600 on a bonsai??, pregnancy scare etc..!!you are very remarkable in keeping it altogether but you know i get where you are.See i guess something we learn from all this is that some things are really not worth getting stressed over. We see the important things and focus on that rather than the petty stuff. Even the pregnancy would have been a HUGE step but probably a blessing that it didn't happen now while on the mend with the m. Yet that has opened another door. Who knows?
I guess most women like to know they are still looking good especially as they get older. I don't think men realise how important it is to some of us that we need some feed back that our men still think we are looking good. It really is a communication thing i guess. Some women need it more than others. I think your w would be one of them. Doesn't mean she is shallow at all, just the circumstances she has been brought up in. I imagine her mum would have worried about looks being miss OZ. Just give those compliments she needs/wants. she will love you more for it!
Anyway good to catch up on your sitch, I hope no more landlords come across you!! It was amusing to read about and i would look forward to the book. Not sure i would be in any hurry to live in India. Take it easy, michelle
