I guess the update is I felt our situation was improving
Just curious if you can expand on this. What gave you that impression? Im not saying that things werent improving...Im just curious what "signs" you are observing to indicate that.
If things were, in fact, improving, what behaviors of yours led to that? How can you keep doing them?
It's interesting to me that you felt things were improving but then you changed what you were doing. Why would she have to "not be home so late"? You also comment on not doing "a perfect job" with the rules. How can you be more consistent regardless of her or your relationship?
As we all know at the beginning it's the little things that you take as wins.
For example, we had been texting a lot(started by her), she asked me if I had already eaten the Sunday before our fight, the day before our fight she went to the store and asked if I needed anything.
The day when she left we were watching a movie and laid my head on her legs and she let me. (Probably shouldn't have done that)
What I mean by not doing a perfect job with the rules is exactly like you stated I shouldn't have said "not be home so late" and the Friday before I had fallen asleep but woke up and when she got home I went in the room with her. That showed that I had waited up for her. So that's what I meant that I had not been perfect with the rules.