Funny as it may sound, I've noticed my EC picks up when I go out of my way to express myself in MrsGGB's LL. I noticed it again this week for her B-day, where I made it an AOS day for her so that she didn't have to do a thing (it is exhausting being her for a day!). I went into it not feeling much of an EC, but doing those things and seeing the effect it had on her brought the EC rushing in. I don't know why it does this, but thinking back, every time I've done this it has renewed the EC. The same seems to happen when she speaks to me in my native LL, which I am discovering is more QT than PT.