When he came home last night, I was on the phone gabbing with some friends in a Skype call. He surprised me because I didn't hear him come in and he laughed when I jumped, and told me all he could hear when he walked in was me laughing.
He hung around for a bit until I was off the phone and then we chatted and laughed for a while. He expressed frustration with his job and I listened quietly and then validated with things like "...yeah, I can see how that would be super frustrating" and stuff like that. Considering the last year of our R was nothing but me on the computer while he passed out on the couch, it was a nice change. I kept up the PMA when I was interacting with him, didn't let any of what I was feeling earlier in the evening creep into my attitude.
No R talk, but it did lead into some physical stuff, which I'm okay with emotionally. Part of his issues with our R was that we didn't have enough physical intimacy (it's his LL), so I wanted to do a 180 and not turn him down when he was initiating. I know it doesn't mean squat in the grand scheme of the R, right now, and I'm not letting it get my hopes up. Still, it as nice. Our physical relationship was always great when it was active.
I sat and listened to him play his guitar for a while after, and then moseyed to bed.
He took the day off of work today -- normally he's out the door before I even get up. This morning he came out to greet me as I was making a bagel and then we watched the weather on the news before I had to gather my stuff to leave. I told him "I'm out; have a great day" and left.
Feeling positive about my DBing efforts today; I haven't let my emotions of the moment rule me (180!)!!!
