I think H's run interference with other men more than we realized. Now we're out and about alone more often. That's what I chalk the increased amount of me getting hit on too. It is annoying.

LOL about your dad. I know what you mean. I have the partly generational, partly cultural thing going with my mother too. She "understands" depression and also marital problems in theory. But in "her day" you either stayed together or broke up. That's it! I get lots of mini speeches about the ways I should be being treated. They feature H bringing me some roses and taking me out to a nice dinner to beg me to consider even taking him back. LOL. Yet sometimes I wonder if she is right. Ha.