FocusedFlutist: OK, no chasing, but I have to warn you all… I don’t have the patience to baby him through this. I know that my confrontation is going to make him uncomfortable, it’s going to make me uncomfortable too, but if he gives one iota about our relationship, then he needs to gird those unused loins and spit it out. Until it’s out in the open, I can’t do anything to fix it.

Mentally, I know that this is not about me, but emotionally, it’s all about me and what I’m doing or not doing.

But this can’t be the blame game here. I don’t want to hear how he feels taken advantage of, and I don’t want to say that I feel like a paycheck. That’s not what 8 months of celibacy is about. Can I start the conversation that way?

God, I need some verbiage. A script or something or I'm really going to screw this up and make it worse.