December 8, 2018:

Coffee and a cookout, a clearing in the woods, or someone's very rural big backyard.

She'd have never agreed to that with me.

"Hey let's get outdoors for a picnic and a getaway." "I don't want to do that!" That's the convo that would have been, where her derision would have wounded me for days, so that I'd have had to take a break from her to recharge.