My story begins with a twist...

[TrentC]

I am not in the position to give you of all people advice because I feel you are on the right track, but you can't fix this. Coming from a woman, sometimes we want to go through what we're going through without that man trying to help us get out of it.

I understand this, and I'm walking a fine line between trying to "fix" it and encouraging her to go for help. This is the closest to an R conversation we've had in almost 2 weeks.

I'm still convinced that she is -- or was -- suffering from depression for much of the last year, and she internalizes stuff like nobody's business. One of my 180's has been to be more assertive about not letting her bottle up her feelings with "I'm fine" and "Never mind".

But I've said my piece to her. We'll see how things go for the next week or so.