Happy Birthday Tal! ... sounds like you know just how to enjoy it if you have to be away from home!
... and you don't sound sour. You're right on target. This is a transition in the R where its easy to start trying to control how we wish to see the positives gained instead of accepting the positives offered. It becomes a critical time to "catch them doing it right" as our 180 to maintain and slowly to work on "asking for what you want" by pick one item on your list at a time. At first you really don't even want to ask, but by using "I" statements express how you would feel if you did get what you want and drop it. Give him time to work on offering such when he has a chance to. If it becomes his choice to offer what you expressed as liking, you both will get more satisfaction, where in directly asking for it will tend to make him feel more burden to oblige and avoids resentment on your part that your expectations are always being pushed into the closet.
