V day went pfffffttttt

The astrology reading gift cert... BIG bust. Apparently reminded her that our signs are terribly incompatible.....

I didn't press, but I could tell she was troubled. I tried to keep making peace, and it's stayed peaceful.... so far....

Anyway, she did go ahead and volunteer a bit about WHY she was troubled by the offer of an astrological reading:

1) Says she can do that herself.... AND, she already knows what she'd be told.... and that she doesn't need to be told, again, that which she already knows.
2) that with me being a "double Libra" and she a Scorpio, any astrologer would say we are incompatible and do not belong together.... (apparently, often said about those signs that border one another).
3) that her other sign (I don't recall what she said that was, if it's her sun sign, moon rising or what.... but, anyway, her other sign gives HER the ability to "step back and see things as they are -- left brain activates -- and she can look objectively.... (hey, it's HER assertion about HERSELF.... doesn't have to be rooted in any reality....)
4) that she can see the handwriting on the wall (at this point, really showing the sudden depressed reaction) -- a comment I thought was too, too tragic for V day.

After a short additional while, as I talked about how I'd tried really hard to give some consideration to the gifts and showing love.... she half mumbled about how we really needed to just stop pretending.... and face the truth of our situation / relationship....

Didn't really elaborate. Just clearly swung to a low low place because of her (possible) disappointment in the V day gifts, and especially because of the reminder the astrology reading idea gave her of our "astrological incompatibility"....


sigh....