She said "Miler, I've had the opportunity to leave this relationship plenty of times over the last 20 years when things were really bad, I'm not going to do that now." I replied, That must have been hard for you over the last 20 years. She started to tear up and said, It was.
Nice job with the validation!!!! I bet she thought "Wow, Miler is really listening to me!" Keep it up!
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I then said, I really didn't want things to get heavy, and we don't really need to get into R talk. Things are where they are, and we're taking this time to work on ourselves so that we have the chance to be happy together down the road.
Good. This is not the time to start putting pressure on her so well done.
