2024 - Twelfth Session
To start, she was interested in hearing the The Eighth Stage of Grief (which she found inspired). We used that as our jumping off point.
Eventually, we got around to the BFF.
I explained to Tess my assumptions, then the BFF's assumptions. She wholeheartedly agreed with the BFF. Then laughed at me.
You see, when I finally get down there, I figured we'd take things slowly - figure things out - see how they feel, then proceed. BFF believes that if things feel right, nothing at all will go slowly, because we've spent the last two years figuring everything out. We're both scenario-runners, which means both of us have already played out everything in our head by a factor of 1000, and we wouldn't be at this point unless the odds were in our favor. The last piece of the puzzle being how it feels being together in this new configuration. Barring that, the usual "initial discovery" phase is already complete. All the questions have been asked and answered and all that remains is the practical exercise and its eventual conclusion. Tess wholeheartedly agrees, and bases this on the level of our communication - a level most couples don't see no matter how long they've been together. So if we've already exceeded that, and continue down this path of transparency, vulnerability, dialogue, and reciprocity - we're already ready for one another to create a most perfect union.
I'll take being laughed at for that <3