"Co-Habitaiting"

Written by: KaldakaGrey

[M4F][Husband][Comfort][Communication is key]

"mmm......"

*yawns*

"Morni-Oh, must already be up. "(said with a twinge of sadness)

~I wonder where she wondered off? I kind of miss the days where I'd wake up and get to just stare at her while she slept. How long has it been since we went to bed and woke up at the same time? Sometimes it feels like we're just drifting by. *sighs* Guess I better get up and go see what she's up to.~(Internal thoughts)

"Good morning Baby. How'd you sleep?"

"Ouch. I'm surprised you didn't wake me up with that tossing and turning. Just couldn't get comfortable or?"

"Oh? What was going through your mind that kept you from settling down?"

"A whole bunch of various things... I see. Are you ok? You look like someone just told you your favorite tea was canceled. Care to talk about any of it? You can talk to me when something's bothering you you know. We're in this together after all. "

"Woah, Hey, what's wrong? Come here, let me hold you. Where'd the tears come from all of a sudden? Shhhh, it's ok, I've got you. What happened? What's going on in that lovely head of yours?"

"No, it's not fine. Tears are not fine. What's going on? Talk to me. I want to know what's wrong so I can fix it. How can I help if you don't tell me whats happened? Is it something from work? Or is it something I did? What's wrong, Baby?

"It's not anything I did but..... But what Baby? It's ok, I'm not going to get offended. I just want to know what's going on so I can fix it and make you feel better. I love you, I promise you all I want is to make you happy, and if I'm failing in that goal then sometimes I might just need some help knowing how to do that."

*pause*

"You miss me and feel like we never spend any time together anymore. And you're worried that it's going to eventually lead to us drifting apart."

*deep sigh*

"Oh love, I'm so sorry. I can't believe we let it get this far. Nothing I do or don't do should ever be enough to make you cry. What kind of husband am I if I make my wife cry? We'll deal with this, I swear we will, but can I just hold you for a second longer first? Right now the idea of letting you go is physically painful."

*pause*

"You needed that too did you? Well, I'm glad my incessant need to hold you when you are sad continues to make you feel better. Now, what are we going to do about this?"

"What? No, of course I'm not mad at you. You've been unhappy and I've been too wrapped up in how I've felt to notice. I feel terrible that I didn't see it earlier. That I let it get this far."

"Yes, how I've felt. Truth be told? I've been kind of feeling the same way. You're up later than I am most nights, and then I'm up before you. Or I'm up later than you, and you're up before me. When we are awake we're so focused on other things around the house, or doing our own thing, that we seem to have somehow just stopped doing things together. "

"No, you're not alone. I've been feeling it too. I've been meaning to talk to you about it but just couldn't seem to find the right time. I didn't want you to feel like I was blaming you for something where neither of us specifically did anything wrong. We just sort of kept letting it happen.

(upbeat shift in tone) "You know what? You're right, we can't just keep going the way we have been. So lets come up with some solutions to get us out of this rut. First, I'm going to say we start trying to go to bed and get up together. We can't rightly spend time together is we lose out on big chunks of that time because one of us is asleep."

"That's a good one. Booting up a movie to watch with dinner each night. We used to do that all the time and lately we just kind of stopped. How about a planned outing once a week? Just, go to the mall, go buy tea, something, anything. Just, one day where we get out of the house together and go do something each week."

"No I do not mean we just go buy tea once a week.*laughs* You just like the idea of buying ALL the tea. Well, we'll see.

"There's my favorite smile. I just realised it's been way too long since I've seen it. We definitely let this go on too long. But no more! No more will I go without seeing that beautiful smile!"

"Yes I'm cheesy, we've established that. You knew that when you married me." *laughs*

"I'm glad we talked too. You mean everything to me and the idea that you were hurting because of something, even if it wasn't entirely my doing, felt terrible."

"Thanks Baby. So! Now then. Now, now we have a plan to break us out of this rut. So, let me guess, where do you want our first outing to be? Tea?"