Thanks, @Lotus -- I was starting to get worried. It took much longer than usual for someone to leap from "Hey, today didn't suck!" to "Oh, dude, you're still so into her."
Nowhere in that post does it say I "think all's well that end's well."
It says that we had two conversations -- one of which could SO have gone the other way -- that were collegial and ended on a cordial note, and that, from my POV, it was a refreshing thing to have happen.
Didn't say "permanent" change. Didn't say "cue Peaches & Herb."
All it was was a journal entry that said, in essence, "Wow. Today didn't suck."
I wrote in my thread entry for Starting Aught-Ten that I set a goal of not being spring-loaded to the freak-out position with respect to STBXMRSSP. To work the mojo; to follow the @Gypsy Doctrine and be impeccable in my words -- in other words, not to let STBXMRSSP get the better of me in the moment.
Nary a word about building a bridge home or talking to her like a lover does or being the man the foolish she oughtn't to leave. Nary. A. Word.
Just noting one of the peculiarities of these situations. That it can still be pleasant to talk to the woman who took everything away. Isn't always. Won't always be. But in that instance it was. A welcome and refreshing breeze. Who knows where tomorrow will be? Typhoons and cyclones and tornadoes -- oh my! But on the day, it was refreshing to be almost kind of nearly somewhat like normal.
