If everything is rosey...why the comment "So that didn't last long"

I guess what I see is still a lot of focus on what your W is doing. It seems to be very anti-DB, but I think it's entirely human. I do think DB sometimes requires Herculean emotional gymnastics at times.

I'm glad you had a good night.

The "delay" can help some, but I think you have to go into it with the right idea and I hope you are. You can't go into it with the idea that you are going to do something to make her change her mind or that the MC is.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau.