At Least We Have A Plan

[arjnex]

InHerJourney, if your insight is as good as that of Greeneyedlass, I shall count myself as fortunate.

Incidentally, as we were entering the bedroom, I asked, "Are the cats in here?" She began saying, "If they want...", but, as they weren't in the bedroom at the time, I unilaterally settled the debate by closing the door so they couldn't get in. (When I opened it up afterward, one of them was sitting by the door waiting, and I had noticed him meowing at the door shortly beforehand. He might have been worried about us.)

Afterward, I mentioned the policy of keeping the cats out again: "This time is supposed to be about us, not about them. Everything else around here is about them." The cats generally have the run of the place, within certain limitations, and one of them likes to jump up on the bed anytime someone else is on the bed. And, if a cat were in the same room as us during one of our encounters, my wife would probably be talking to the cat instead of focusing her attention on me, where it's supposed to go.

So...no cats during our encounters, whether we're clothed or not. I'm not going to give in on that.

The fact that she wants to do this every night (at least the clothed variant) makes me hopeful that progress can be more rapid than the 2-months-per-stage that we outlined...but I'm not going to get my hopes up too far, and just assume that the schedule as planned is valid. Of course, tonight she could call it off because she's not feeling well, for whatever reason, but I'm not going to assume the worst, either.

- "A"