Cas and CW, thanks for stopping by and your continued encouragement. I love your color-coordinated pom-poms ladies.
Hey MHL, great to see you again! I see you've gotten some color on your cheeks from those lovely, warm days in the "south" (geographic location is relative). Glad to see that things are going well for you! I've been meaning to catch up with you, but have been slowed down by X-MIL's turn for the worse, patio tree, and taxes.......yada, yada, yada........
Yes, this was the first time Mr. GAG initiated the k-i-s-s, albeit sweet, and I have noticed several indications that he is moving toward me. It was interesting to me that a week ago when we went for sunday "dinner and a movie" he commented that his former business partner is going on vacay with his W (they are in M counseling and things aren't going well) and that someone in his office said "Maybe this will be good for their R". When Mr. GAG told me this he kind of made a little sneer and said something like "I don't think that's necessarily true". Now that I've had time to think about it I think Mr. GAG was referring to going to Mexico with GF#2 and it's possible that this trip, which was likely booked around New Years, is what has been keeping him from moving forward more. I agree that it will be interesting to see what happens after he returns. XH dropped the bomb 1 week after we returned from a 2 week vacay so there's a precedent for him to do this. No expectations. Just watching. X-MIL's declining health has really impacted this situation, so it's hard to predict what XH or I will do.
In the meantime I will continue to supportive. I visited his mother last night. She really is continuing to decline (her face now looks thin because she isn't eating much) but last night was surprisingly lucid. She mentioned GF#2 by name which really surprised me since I didn't think her memory was good enough to remember things in the recent past. When I arrived at X-MIL's place XH had set the photo of me and X-MIL (I gave this to X-MIL recently) at her recent birthday party out on the kitchen table for everyone to see. This confirmed for me either that GF#2 is in Mexico with him or he doesn't care if she sees the photo. I took photos of X-MIL holding up little tagboard signs saying "Hello!" and "What's happening?" in Spanish and texted them to him and followed up with an e-mail. Thought the little signs might give him a laugh. Continuing to plant seeds in his brain. I spoon fed X-MIL for a bit, but couldn't get much down. It's probably good that he's taking a vacay now. She can't go on much longer like this without eating.
MHL, I was reminded recently of what you wrote me in the past about how men tend to have a new R lined up before they finish their current R. I'm thinking that this may be true of XH. He has done this kind of thing in the past. Time will tell.
