"glob, did you think she would respond other than the way she did? "
No, but I can always hope.

"If you KNOW she is not going to respond well to your grabbing, touching, rubbing, etc., why do you set yourself up for rejection?"
Because I am a freakin idiotic masochist. And I like to touch her even if she brushes me off, I can pretend for just a moment that things are normal between us.

"Does she sometimes respond well to this kind of thing?"
Not in a long time

"Maybe a comment (with no touching) like, "You look so sweet and pretty this morning," and then immediately leaving the room would have been better."
Already do that several times a day. Although I have been backing off as per the advice from several people here on this board (I'm overdoing it). I guess switching from saying it too much to saying it not at all created a pressure build-up inside me that I released this morning in a dumb way, that probably just made things worse.

I'm such a freaking amateur at this.


"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"

Inertia Creeps by Massive Attack