Thank you all for your thoughts...that cat would park herself on my chest when it was meditation time, her purrs helped me sync and slow down my breathing. And she slept on the bed every night through this sitch, so now I really am sleeping alone...
W must have gotten some useful/comforting(?) info from ob/gyn/hormone docs, she was pretty much "herself" last night. Seemed sort of relieved maybe, idk. Told me some of the hormone thoughts and theories, but not too revealing whether she was feeling better about the influence of the hormonal changes affecting her attraction to me, her journey (as we call it now) and things like that. That's okay, the answers will come in one form or another...
She did let out that her friends apparently don't want to/can't listen to, and I quote, "her sh!t anymore and she needs to see a therapist". No mind reading that statement from me, it's her experience, her thoughts, etc. I was just my newer usual self, validating, full-on engaged listening, and some good ol' fashioned STFU. I do like this "no-fix" mentality. Seems to help keep communication co-operative and empathetic...and less stressful for all parties.
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
