Quote: Maybe I'm scared of his answer, I don't know. I feel like I'm reeling in a fish that's only nibbling on the bait - the hook isn't actually in....know what I mean? There just hasn't been "enough" from SO to warrant that kind of talk - yet. He knows what I want. I have no doubt about that. If OW is indeed out of the picture...or on her way out....I'm not about to start pushing him, too. I've waited this long, I can wait a bit more.
OR, we could look at it this way (if you are a dark minded person who's watched Prison Break one too mant times).
If you were facing a death sentence and they said you could have a few more weeks, AND you got to eat your favorite meal, albeit not really cooked the way you like, and do some fun things that you haven't gotten to do while on death row, wouldn't you say "yea, I'll take that deal."
Point is that hell yes NM and I are putting off something that COULD be "death" to us in terms of WAS telling us that OP is alive and well in their life but I am willing to accept that denial (can you accept denial?) for a little more peace in my life...for NOW. Like I said, for me, this is NOT a permamant "head in the sand" situation. It's more like NM said in that the time is just not right, but it will need to be sometime sooner rather than later.
Of course my analogy fails when we realize that in our sitch, we can just walk away from the "sentence" at any time but oh well, no analogy is perfect...lol.
