My turnip is really making an effort. Well, he made an effort last night, lol, perhaps my optimism is a little premature??

Seriously I am far from optimistic but I am pleased nonetheless. He came up to me last night and kissed me all over my forehead, my cheeks, my lips, my shoulders. It was wonderful! The whole time he was making eye contact and telling me how much he loved me. Yumyum.
It lasted perhaps a minute. I reciprocated as much as I could (this is one of my goals) but I was burping the baby at the time and couldn't get too close.
I looked at him and said, H if you did this once a day, you'd never hear another word outta me.
He laughed and continued to kiss me until baby did indeed burp and we then turned our attention to her and what a lovely baby she is for doing such an amazing thing.

Nowwwww, this is not entirely true and H knows it. I would not be satisfied with passionate affection for the rest of my life. BUT it is a starting point. As you all know, it is incredibly difficult to climb into bed with someone and get all up der business if you aren't accustomed to doing that already. We give lots of hugs and pecks in our house but.....well.....you know what I mean right? They are not really packed with emotion. The sentiment behind them might best be described as "you are a good person" rather than "I love you and need you". This showing of a deeper emotion, coupled with an extended amount of physical affection that has a different 'tone' leads to a higher comfort level, come bedtime. Then when we crawl (collapse?) into bed with each other, the ice has been broken. It does not feel awkward to get up in his bidness cause I've already been there, that evening. If nothing happens, that's okay, because we have shared ourselves with each other anyway. Again, I'd still have to have the real thing more often than not, so I don't want it to sound like Honey could subsist on a diet of sexy hugs, no way.

But this is all part of the greater equation.

Honeypot

P.S. Speaking of diets, I have lost a grand total of 8.5 lbs so far! Yeah!