Melody was hesitant to put an exact timeline on this for a multitude of reasons, the foremost of them being the added pressure it would put on their fragile relationship. Should they say there was a six month time limit to happiness and after reaching the five month mark they were still making slow, but minimal progress one of them could decide to simply give up then. What would be the point of pressing on if things were to be mostly the same as they were now? More than that, who was to say that a major breakthrough wouldn't happen at seven or eight months?

"What if we planned to have more talks like this instead? Rather than having a strict date to be tied to we could keep talking and if we didn't think it was worth continuing we could decide that then?" She suggested. Honestly, Melody was surprised he was willing to try at all. She had prepared herself for everything short of him asking for a divorce during the past few days.

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