Hope and heartache

[ClingingToHope]

Steve, I'm going out again with the PNI -- possible new interest -- tomorrow night, but with a group of people so again it can't be perceived as being a couple. Maybe I'm overstating her interest. It's not something we've talked about. I'm still in "fill time" mode.

Met with the C today and spent just about the whole hour just getting her up to speed. She said I'm doing very well for six months and didn't have any particular suggestions other than to tell me to look at my progress when feeling down.

I set another session for December before Christmas. She said hopefully a lot has changed by then and I told her I'm trying to adopt the Stockdale Paradox and not put too much into artificial deadlines. That made her smile.

Took girls to pick up pies for Thursday. D7 was blissfully playing away in the backseat, trying to annoy D10. D10 got mad and then started looking sad. I asked what was wrong and she said she wanted everything to be like it was last year when we went to the Kalihari (Wis. Dells) for Christmas. We were happy and we were together.

I told her that's what I want too, but there's not a lot we can do short-term. She didn't like that answer. W is going to have a lot of bridge building to do with D10 if she continues down the D path.