I've been doing all that, and she has commented several times how I'm a lot like I was when we met...only better since the negative behaviors are (mostly) dealt with and gone.
When I ask her what's missing, she says, "The sexual attraction, but that's getting better."
We've really been having the time of our life for the past month or so. We go out once or twice a week. Play sports together; work out together; work on projects at home together; cook together. It's always fun and, really, even better than it ever has been.
It may just be a matter of enough time not having passed.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -- Inigo Montoya, 'The Princess Bride'
