OMG!!! You better not tell me that you don’t see a million and two positives in this post!
Okay Bets, he’s listening. You have his full and complete attention.
What you said with D10 was absolutely perfect. You ought to take that family to dinner – they opened up an incredible opportunity for you! By talking to her like that you are showing your family that you have explored your shortcomings, can admit to them and are successfully working to change them. I wonder if MW even figured out that it was one of his problems (I know my own alien tends to not know what is bothering him) but when you put it in the way that you did he snapped to attention. He watched, he listened, and he got uncomfortable. He got uncomfortable because he wasn’t expecting your reaction or your explanation. You showed him that you have changed and he can’t accuse you of anything less. He got it.
Do you see how he wanted to run out the door? He needed to go to his cave and digest all of this. He needed to sort it out and look back and ponder over how many times the word ‘no’ set you into a feeding-frenzy and if this change was indeed going to work for him. We all know that it will!
The funny thing here is that he’s seeing things in a different light and will be so shocked that he expects you to do something old Betsey-ish right now to show him that last night was a fluke. Which, we know you won’t be doing…
HOLY MOSES BETS, GO YOU!!!!
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
--Agnes Repplier, writer and historian
