terrypurple73 | FOUR BILLION MILLION points for Laura

And it's okay. Not 100%, but okay. Joe went over to pick up his half of the beer-making supplies tonight, and Tom was all short with him and unhelpful and snippy. Then Laura told them that they should sit down, just for five minutes even, and talk some things through. And they did. It's going to be a slow adjustment, easing back into spending time together, but they talked for about a half hour, and got to respond to each other in person instead of through email, and got to be in-person-honest with each other. Sounds like it was helpful and needed and improved things, and I'm really happy about the whole dang thing. Four million billion points for Laura for initiating this. She says they were about five minutes from never talking again, and I'm so glad she stepped in. She'd asked me earlier today if she should try to get them to talk, and I'd truthfully said I didn't know if it would be a good idea- I didn't know if they'd get too heated and blow up at each other, and that sort of thing would really end it for good, if they blew up. She took a risk, and I'm amazingly glad she did.
There are a lot of trivial things that are easier now, like that my friend and my boyfriend will both come to my birthday party in a few weeks (31 years + 31 days! You're all invited!), and that now I don't have to find another ride into Vail this summer when I officiate at Tom and Laura's wedding, and things like that. But what's really great is that some time, when things heal and grow and rebuild, and the inside jokes the boys share come back in spades, and when they take bike rides together and get so damn excited to see each other- maybe then Laura and I can make jokes again about how we'll settle for one another if our boys leave us for each other. :) I hope they stay on this road to recovery, and I'm immensely proud of them for setting out on it, prodded or not.