Hey AP, thanks for the link that really made me giggle! I'll definitely have a look at a few more of his sketches!

Unfortunately that little taste of reconnection with out WAS, even small, is a real killer isn't it! It doesn't matter how many times you are told and you tell yourself to keep expectations low, as time goes on those expectations grow and grow and all those months of trying to detach go straight down the toilet!

As you know I have been a very bad DBer and yes I have done a bit if pursuing but I see it as if H didn't want to see me he would say so surely it's doing something that works because he is accepting 98% of my invites. My H is quite lazy at pursuit so I think I might be hanging around forever if I don't take the initiative every now and again! Saying that though I am pulling back on the contact. I'll wait for him to contact me now and see how it goes.

I think only you know how your W is likely to react if you invite her for coffee again. IDK, maybe the time of the year might be a good excuse... Waiting for my 2x4s again!!!

My problem is I want H to be on my timeline, which is now (!), and when it doesn't happen it sends me spinning! D told me this evening that she can see progress and that we are in a much better place now than a month ago and I guess I have to take that positive.

I think AP you have much more restraint than I do but I am grateful that you understand how difficult it is to maintain that restraint and why I've not been very good at it! I would have and did arrange to meet H for coffee a week later after our first meeting but the more I got the more I wanted. That's the killer!

I've not had the stomach to put Christmas music on yet, mostly because it's D's birthday first so thats my priority, but also I just can't seem to get into the spirit of Christmas as yet.

Forgot to say. The jam biscuits you were talking about that you like were they jammy dodgers?


Me - 47
H - 45
D-16
M - 6 years
Separated - May 16

Don't leave me behind can't you see me I'm shining... (Years & Years - 'Shine')