Kicking a$$ and taking names!

[reachingHigher]

Snodderly, I'll do some research, and continue to hold to my boundaries. Your solid advice means more than you can know.

And ammc, thanks. Yes, I'll invite, plan, make it fun (Thanksgiving) and he can join if he wants to. Coming from his own space.

Journaling:

I don't at all want to get my hopes up, but I have picked up on a much more sincere and flirty tone with H since I stopped ML.

He leaves shortly for his trip today and I'm just seeing things like more engagement with me. We had a couple of flirty texts last night (NOT a textfest, mind you, lol) and he asked if I would send him a pic of me. Then he said jk. You know, probably one of THOSE kind of pics which we used to regularly do. I wasn't entirely sure he was jk.

I also had some trouble with the Mustang stereo which he installed and he was much overly helpful with that even calling me and asking me for a pic of it, telling me where the manual was, and texting S12 to see if I got it figured out. Overkill, if you ask me.

Instead of texting back "Ty" or "thank you" I'm getting "thank you so much!" or instead of "yw" I get "yvw" or "my pleasure".

I encouraged him yesterday that maybe on this vacation he might want to begin journaling. He wanted to do that when he moved out, but didn't. He talked about wanting to do things on the vacation like getting up to watch the sun rise on the beach. I hope Mistress Alcohol doesn't steal these dreams away from him, but, yes, it's not my problem. It's just a great opportunity for him to grow and I hope he takes advantage of it.