@Artferret Thank you Cath. I do get so lonely for my husband. He is away in Sydney every week for three or four days, and even in Melbourne he works really long hours. As previously discussed, I put my foot down about having a day out together every month. This was to sate my desire to be out and about, travelling, but it's turned out that it's the spending of time together that I'm really enjoying.
During the week I cracked the sads and said we had to prioritise spending time together a bit more. So we're going to try to pop out for a drink together every now and then, be it a coffee or a mocktail.
The week after next is our 20th wedding anniversary. The original plan was to go to a tropical island somewhere for a week or ten days. We haven't had a holiday alone together since our honeymoon, and he likes a beach holiday (way more than I do) so I was going back to work to save up for Fiji or Thailand or something like that. Well BC well and truly scuppered that plan, so it's dinner at a nice restaurant overlooking a Port Phillip Bay beach instead!
I'll try to smile tonight before I go to sleep. It's become such a torturous time of day for me. I'll give anything a go!
Thank you sweets for all your support. Have you any plans for your empty nest? K xox