CW, Thanks for stopping by and for your encouragement.

Sorry I haven't had a chance to catch up on others' threads recently. The last couple days have been very busy, but I wanted to quickly journal about what happened today in my little corner of the world.

Today was my day off work. Had my bi-weekly table tennis lesson. Then went to visit X-MIL with my faithful pet cat. Brought X-MIL flowers and gave her a manicure. She was pretty happy. Texted XH photo of his mother drying her fingernails in front of a fan. He texted back 8 minutes later saying "Tell her she looks marvelous!!".

Then........I drove to a local community center to play table tennis with XH. The fun H I was married to showed up to play (Haven't seen the alien for 2 weeks now. YEAH!!!!!!). No tension, just fun, fun, fun! We played for 1 1/2 hours. My game is improving little by little, so XH was surprised when I consistently kept smashing his lobs (I wasn't able to do that last time). We both mixed it up a bit, hitting short and long balls, so it was pretty fun.............then, about 45 minutes into the evening a Chinese couple strolled by the open door to the room where we were playing (in a park community center). The Chinese H looked into the room and smiling broadly, came up to us. He began to gesture saying "ping pong po!". XH asked Chinese H if he wanted to play. Chinese H said "I don't speak English"...Long story short, we ended up taking turns playing both the Chinese H and W and watching the two of them play each other as well. They were quite skilled!!!! XH and I giggled and exchanged knowing glances with one another as we guessed at what the Chinese H and W were saying to one another. It was truly the type of serendipitous, shared experience that bonds people together and builds a common history. It reminded me very much of the kind of experiences H/XH and I shared when we were together.

Afterward, XH and I walked to our cars and chatted about the experience for 5-10 minutes. Then he got a phone call, said he had to take it, got in his car and drove off.

XH and I have made it to the friendship stage and he hasn't seemed depressed for awhile. Wondering if this is ever going to move to the romance stage. Don't know whether I need to push a bit or try to stir the pot. I'm afraid we may end up as only friends, which admittedly is something,........... but my gut tells me there really is the potential for more.

I made an appointment with Jody this Saturday. There has been a substantial change in my interaction with XH since the last time I spoke with her. I'm curious to hear her feedback.

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