GH....you effen got it!! You GOT it...and you got the payoff!!
And dammit if your post didn't just move me to tears...happy tears though. I'm thrilled beyond belief to have been a part of your aha moment...kinda makes all these posts worth writing if just one person gets it, listens and learns from the experiences of others.
As you said she generally hints, insinuates...somehow in her recent journey, she's learned how to come out and ask for what she wants. That my friend is what the journey is all about. To bring you both closer through communication, intimacy...slow baby steps. Points for the W and points for GH for coming through!! If I had a bottle of champagne right about now, the drinks would be on me!!
She went for the VDay...woo hoo...I had a sneaking suspicion that she would my friend. Now a suggestion and JUST a suggestion...regarding the coat, an excellent idea, she'll of course need one but unless you are extremely comfortable in choosing what she would like or living with the rejection, why don't you mention that you were thinking that you had wanted to get her a coat for the trip...but you'd like for her to pick it out...a Vday outing (maybe even lunch!) while the kids are at school. This way, you get to be the knight in buying it and she would pick out and model for you exactly what she is looking for. Of course you know your W best but...just a thought.
And next time my friend stop while you are ahead, keep the sarcasm to yourself...it wasn't a horrible backslide.
Okay...Kleenex please...damn, wish I had someone to wipe these tears away. Oh well...
