Hey Sam, that's a great example!! And yes, it's something to be proud of for sure! I went by school to pick up D15 today and she asked it it was OK to go to a volleyball game instead, then apologized for me having to drive up there for nothing. I told her no problem and to go have fun. Old me would have lectured her about wasting my time! I think she likes the new me a lot more, LOL!
And while we're on this subject, my W has a much, much worse impression of me than I ever was. I was astonished when I found out she thought she had lost a tax document I gave her and rather than ask me to get a replacement she called my boss directly. My boss told her she'd give the replacement to me to bring home and W said "Oh no, please just mail it, he can't find out because he will be furious." The thing is, it's absolutely not true, even the old me wouldn't have cared. And in fact, I still had the document in my briefcase, I had forgotten about it. If W had asked, I would have looked a few minutes and produced it. Yet somehow she convinced herself I'd go postal over it. In 25 years I've probably had a big shouting match with W half a dozen times, yet she developed the perception that I would rip her a new one over the smallest things. I can do 180's on the old me's ways (and I certainly have done many), but changing W's perceptions? I don't know.
