Holding Hands
By Citronella on Wednesday, May 21 2008, 19:37 - Permalink
I feel grateful when he suddenly grabs my hand and holds it.
And I don't know if I should, indeed, be glad that, even after all these years months he is still capable of these little spontaneous gestures of affection, or if I should, actually, be upset at feeling grateful for something so utterly normal in a couple.
Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Or is it simply twice too big?
Or do you need more data?
Yeah. That's what a few hours reviewing the worse paper ‒ scientifically speaking ‒ you've ever set your eyes upon does to you. No motivation, no backing up of claims, no logical connection between paragraphs, information scattered all over the place... and I just wrote four pages on how to improve this non-sense I am not even really interested in. Damn being nice to editors.
Comments
I get that sometimes - being so bloody grateful for any scrap of affection from someone. It's not really good, but I can completely understand where you're coming from with it.
As for the glass - I'd agree with the last one
Amy > I think it's more a "marveling at the small things" than "oh my god he looked at me!!!!" sort of behavior. I get glad that, even though things can be tough, and obviously we are not as considerate for each other as we were when we started dating, and he has been grumpy for a while, he ''does'' reach for my hand in a cute loving-birds way. Part of it is also because I am so much more demonstrative than him that I welcome gestures that are not a response to mine (nor plain sexual) as a proof of his tenderness towards me.
That's what I meant - possibly not explaining myself very well :-)