"It's nice to hear from you..."

I've been trying to sort things out without the help of my therapist since I'm still having issues with billing. Getting through the last two weeks has been a lot of hard work between feeling alone because I have no one to talk to, and feeling like I'm about to shutdown due to daily harassment by my bored and lonely mother.

It's been over two weeks since the woman I was ready to spent the rest of my life with ripped my heart out of my chest. I didn't hear from her at all after the verbal assault she hit me with. But today was different. It was her birthday today. I decided to make an attempt to reach out.

This, I recorded a video of myself playing my own rendition if "Happy Birthday" on my guitar. I recorded it last night and scheduled it to send this morning. I was clearly fearful of what her response might be. Would she even look at it?

To my surprise, I woke up to two text responses from her. The first read: "Thank you. That's very sweet...". The second text read: "It's nice to hear from you..." Does this open up the doors for talks that may lead towards reconciliation? Who knows? But after more than two weeks, it was nice to hear from her again as well.