He: Even though I’ve known you for some time, I want to know more about you. I have a ‘million’ questions and or discussions I’d like to have with you…
She: Hhhmmm, sounds like fun, fire away…
He: So, who are you really? What makes you tick?
She: We’ve been in sleeping in the same bed for 2 years and you don’t know?
He: I know some, but, as you know, I was ill, and I could not focus on you as much as I’d like to have wanted to…, as I’m beginning to recover, my curiosity is building up…
She: I understand, begin, ask away…
He: What are your expectations about our relationship, really? I mean we’ve had some very, very rocky times, how do you really feel about us right now?
She: Don’t know, still making up my mind as we go along…
He: Yeah, me too… I love you deeply, you know that?
She: Nope, I’ve just got your word for it, I mean I catch glimpses of it here and there…, but nothing definitive…
He: Tell me about some of the items on you ‘bucket-list’, i.e., your dreams and aspirations, even though you may think you’ll never get to do them…
She: I want us to have our own home by the sea and I want us to be financially independent…
He: Amen to that, I also very much want that.
She: I want to know that you have my back!
He: Me too, ditto to that…
She: I like your profession as an antiageing therapist and I want you to keep me young as long as possible…
He: Me too, ditto to that…
She: I want us and my our extended family to be happy, and I want us to get along...
He: Me too, ditto to that…
She: Your turn, lets take a break from me for now, what are some of the things on your list?
He: I want to travel regularly to my beloved Africa, I want to walk with lions again, I want to frolic in its vast and powerful oceans, I want to be chased by elephants again, I want to be awakened by the wild chacma baboons, and I want to have a delicious cup of organic chicory coffee with home-made choc chip cookies and pancakes [with real organic maple syrup] made from almond flour as I commune with the baboons, I want to feel the thrill and danger that a lion might eat me today…
She: Goodnight, you’re insane…[accompanied with nervous laughter], that would scare the life out of me… I’m a sensitive and cultured European, you know…???
He: I want you to share these experiences with me, I want to see the thrill and wonder and hear you laugh with abandon as we chase a wild white rhino…
She: Mommy, save me…
He: I want to take you to Houston to the rodeo, and I want to eat ‘paleo’ chili dogs with you as we walk around immersing ourselves in the heart of Texas…
She: I cannot even imagine that, its so foreign to me…
He: I want to take you dancing to some of my favourite rock and roll dives in Houston, and I want us to twirl and whirl and even get a little tipsy as we gulp down some thirst-quenching Texas beers…
She: Now that I can handle, I love dancing and drinking…
He: Ok, your turn, so, what else is on your list…???