That's my read on it too, Greeneyedlass. For the moment, I'm going to treat anything above the weekly encounters as "bonus." However, I do hope she'll feel OK with shedding the pajamas and going to full Stage I sooner rather than later.

She also mentioned that she wishes we could actually sleep in the same bed, but it's my snoring that gets to her, especially given her known insomniac tendencies. I don't know what to do about that, and she doesn't either. But resolving that would certainly help.

- "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."