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Though he knew he’d probably do it tonight when he was lying in bed and couldn’t sleep because he just had so much to do.

Maybe it was a good thing his father was going to help him out. Guess he didn’t realize how much he needed it.

7

WONDERFUL ADVICE

“It sounds as if we have a good start,” Regan said three days later. “You have your homework.”

“I like homework,” Maria said, giggling.

Colin leaned into his fiancée and put his head on her shoulder. “You always had to be the teacher’s pet, but that is what I found so adorable about you in college.”

“That’s where we met,” Maria said.

“You told me that,” Regan said. “It was a sweet story.”

“I always wanted to be college sweethearts with someone,” Colin said. “It was my lucky day that Maria’s phone fell out of her pocket when she sat down in front of me.”

“He was so chivalrous,” Maria said. “He got up and grabbed my phone and handed it to me. I hadn’t even known it’d fallen out. It was the first day of class and I was so nervous that I was getting in over my head in chemistry.”

Regan smiled listening to the two of them adding to their story as if it was a rehearsed dialogue. You could tell they’d told the history of how they met multiple times and could probably do it in their sleep.

“As I was saying,” she said, “you’ve got your homework before I see you again next week. Do you want to meet at the same time?”

“This works for us,” Maria said. “I get out of work earlier than Colin.”

“I can flex my time so if it’s good for Maria then it is for me too. We are going to dinner now to talk about things. Maybe it can be our date night.”

“Oh,” Maria said. “Even more fun.”

She got up with the two lovebirds and followed them out of the room. “Miles will set up your next appointment and I’ll see you then.”

Regan went back to her office and started to type her notes. It was her last appointment of the day, but she was going to stay a bit and get everything done so that she could go home and have a glass of wine and not think about work for the night.

She was trying to have a few nights of brain haze and disconnect with something frivolous on TV.

Pretty pathetic that was what her life had turned into and the only thing she was looking forward to.

“Okay,” Miles said, coming into her office. “They are too sickly sweet and adorable. I don’t normally want to gag, but I almost lost my lunch and I had it hours ago. Tacos aren’t so great coming up the second time. I’ve learned my lesson there and don’t mix them with margaritas.”

She laughed. Miles had the ability to bring the giggles out of her though she suppressed them so she didn’t sound childish.

“They were a cute couple,” she said.

“I can’t imagine why they are here,” Miles said. “Why would they spend that much money when everything seems to be great with them?”

“Not everyone has problems,” she said. She could say something to Miles since he had access to files anyway. “Theyjust want to strengthen their communication prior to getting married. I think it’s wonderful.”

She wouldn’t add that Maria and Colin also wanted to expand their sex life. She wasn’t a sex therapist and could refer them on, but for now, it was simple enough and more about talking through what they were each looking for.

“I guess,” Miles said. “Sometimes I think it’s better to work things out as you go.”

“How is that?’ she asked.

Miles came in and sat on the couch. She got up from her desk and went to the chair she sat in for sessions. Not that Miles would get a session, but she did enjoy talking and sparring with him.

“I’ve had relationships where you try to plan it all out or have these expectations and when things don’t work out you’re hurt. Both of you. But when you are muddling your way through, you can both learn. Sometimes how you muddle your way through is more important than the end results.”

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