Quite the turn things are taking with her. She is expressing so many things that we all have read that they do ... script script script but in this case it is at the least things they say when the fog lightens up a bit and they are trying to crawl out of the tunnel. In my case it was about 4-5 months of some clarity and it was like the work was to hard and she shot right back in. This one ... time will tell right?
I think what struck me reading along was your responses and her retort ... as buttrfly mentioned she tried to slip a fib by you, not only did you not buy it, you handled it well and indifferent with a mere shrug and called her on it in passing .... where things got interesting for me was she did not deny it and even admitted it was wrong and she needed more soul searching to discover WHY she did such a thing ..... the look does seem to be shifting inward for her and this is good, just hope she has the stones to see it through for her own sake and then you can continue to decide what you will handle and what you will not.
Thank you for answering my question on the dates, I was pretty sure its been several years but was not quite sure. I think it does play a part in it as its hard to tell how someone is, my ex can sound all fruit and bubbly while on the phone with my son ... then she shows up at his baseball game and she looks flat worn out.
So the question remains ... is this an emergence, or simply a check in with pending holidays arriving ... time will tell.