A Little Epiphany - (and a newbie delurking)

[Dia]

H woke up in a much better mood. He sorted through the boxes of giveaways with many thanks for my efforts in doing the first cull. If the black shirt belonged to OW, he didn't seem to realize it and he didn't pull it out of the pile. There was also a book of Judaica that I was letting of of that he didn't keep. He did, however, rescue a Bob the Builder CD, and I had to wonder if it was for OW's daughter. <shrug> Whatever.

There were also lots of comments along the lines of

"Wow, you bought me this when we lived in....."

"I remember this! <insert nostalgia here>"

And there was one of those future-looking comments that included me. There was small a pile of good-condition, mate-less socks. I said I'd found them in a box, so perhaps they had mates if we integrated them with the laundry - or perhaps not.

H: Let's keep them. If they still don't have mates we can do this again in a year.

And then he hugged me before he left.


About last night - esp. given his 'respectable' comments, I wonder if he did feel jealous and/or threatened even though I didn't pull any of the aforementioned tricks? And I wonder if his grumpiness when I got back had to do w/me being gone? Rejection, maybe? No way to know of course, and yes - it's not always about me, but there you go.