My Doppelganger, This is scary. Some of the things you are saying are identical to some of the things I've been saying. Like "backing off", not cleaning up etc. Two different books said that progress will come in the form of taking "three steps forward, two steps back". Any of you guys following my journal have seen me go to hell and back. The one thing that is probably good for us the vigilance of posting things here. Even if it's just BS, it at least reminds us that we are working towards something.
I'm in a similar mode right now where I need "back off" a little to decrease the pressure. W knows what my needs are now. I'm going to meet the needs she defined and then see what happens. The interesting thing is the fact that my W seems to only try to do the bare minimum. Is it wrong for me to do the bare minimum of the things she asks of me? Maybe we maintain a "baseline" then occasionally try to throw something unexpected.
Yah, you and I are going through the same phase where you are trying to get in "sync" while establishing the correct "pace".