Had yet another great date with Elaine. I finally just said "fuck it" and didn't even mention how I felt on our last date. She even brought up how bad the movie was. It was funny.

I picked her up at 1pm to go to Herberger theater. We went to see the 2nd play in a trilogy. The play was called Augusta. Too bad we didn't catch the first play because I felt that this one was pretty bad. She was much more forgiving about the play than she was about the movie last week.

Elaine's been having one rough week. She did mention that Wednesday was good but she was feeling a bit depressed because she had a bad falling out with her close friend. She was supposed to play golf but something happened which she didn't elaborate and that didn't happen. She also told me that her trip to Vegas was off too. It was with the same woman. This happened the same week where her daughter called off her wedding and broke it off with her fiance.

After the play we came back to my place to have a glass of the Cols DuBois Pinot I bought. She got pretty tipsy and I wish I had taken a bit more advantage of it. We kissed once here but only because she was really unloading her feelings on me and it felt appropriate.

After the wine we went over to Pure Sushi for a great dinner. I stupidly left my wallet at home and she ended up paying for dinner. I felt totally stupid and cheap though when I saw that the meal ran to $96. Shit! That's what we get for ordering sashimi instead of the nigiri sushi. She was a good sport about it though. I tried to get her to let me pay her back later but she said no.

The sad part of the date was when I took her back to her place I was hoping to have a little make-out session but she saw that her daughter Amy was home. She told me to be careful but that Amy wouldn't think that this was a date since it was so early in the day. She also told me to duck if she threw anything. What a strange thing to say. I wonder if her daughters are very protective of her. It would be nice if they were but only to a certain extent.

Given the way things are going now though, I must admit that I will probably end up breaking things off with her. She has way too much drama in her life and she seems way too restrained in her emotions.

She explained a lot more about her marriage this time. Seems that she got married very young and her husband was an abuser. It was worse when he got drunk but he was abusive even when sober. He would hit her and often in the face but she covered up for him. The end came when he tried to strangle her. She sought counselling with him though and when he said he would do it again because she was his wife and that's the way it is, she decided to finally leave. After 16 fucking years of this. I really felt sad for her.

At least she's a totally different person now. She's grown so much since then. I hope she doesn't have huge, thick walls up. I really like her but I've pulled back a bit as well. I don't think I can keep seeing her without a more physically intimate relationship with her. YES, I'm talking about SEX!