That is wonderful! It is a sign that your wife is starting to realize that your relationship is a priority for her. As they say each action can either work to bring you together or it can work to tear a couple apart.
It also sounds like you are finding ways to work together to compromise (taping the show to watch later) and do things as a couple (scrabble) in the mean time.
I would be encouraged! Good luck.
>43 years of marriage--My wife and I are now closer than we have been in decades. I believe that my SSM is over.
Well, no scrabble last night, we just read in bed again, and went to sleep early. No conversation or closeness, she just dozed while I read, for the most part. Scrabble=Sex=Scrabble? Seems like she's tending towards avoidance behaviours, just different ones, which was kind of the point of the experiment. At dinner last night, it came out that we were taping Lost, so S23 asks "Where are you going to be?" The answer was "Here.", so he asks "Then why are you TAPING it?" So I just said Mom and I are cutting down on our TV watching in the evening and left it at that. But obviously, the kids are starting to notice things are different, which I think will lead to GOOD things...
As she was driving me to work this morning (a 5-min drive), I suggested that we should sometimes go to bed early just to be together, cuddle and talk. We used to chat in bed sometimes, like we were having a sleepover, and that was nice. We seriously need to reconnect on many levels, and what with the kids, and the housework, etc, etc, it just never seems to happen. I'm hoping we can create, at least occasionally, a sort of cocoon-like atmosphere, where we can start to regain some of that "us against the world" feeling...
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