You and Sage have great advise, though. I need to go back to the begining, and combine it with my leanings towards treating this as a new relationship. A timely reminder from Mak on Maya's thread
I need to create the same environment with NG, he seems to be way to comfortable that I will stick around, no matter what he does.
Slowly
I just may have taken the notion of helping NG feel safe a tad too far. I know the few times I went off on my own, he was quite perturbed. Need to inject some of that into the next couple of weeks, and see where it gets us.