Understood, blackfoot. Quite frankly, I don't blame you. I'm not sure I could benefit from your advice without a number of other things being resolved first. Or, to put it another way, there's some code that needs to be refactored before it can be expanded upon.

FWIW, I did ask my wife the question, "Why do you love me?", and got back several reasons:

1. "You're smart"
2. "You treat me like a human being"
3. "You make me laugh"
4. "You don't mind my cooking" (actually, I like it; she's not fancy, but she does well enough for my tastes)
5. "You're good to our babies" (i.e. the cats)

With regard to that last point, she's firmly of the opinion that animals can tell the difference between someone who really cares about them and someone who's just acting (a "phony"). The cats have a high opinion of me, and she accepts their judgement.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to bring up the plan with her last night; she needed rest. (She had to see the doctor yesterday for some sort of stomach virus, possibly flu. It may take her 2-3 days to fully recover.)

- "A"

"Everything that happens, happens. Everything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Everything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."