Jennifer sets her pad to the side and leans forward in her chair. "Okay, I want to try something before we go back to talking." We look at each other than back at her and nod, "Okay." She smiles and leans back in her chair, "I am going to say a word or phrase and I want you to say the first thing that comes to your mind. No thinking about it, just say." We nod and she leans back and look at us.
"Austin, what comes to mind when I say… Aubrey." He smiles, "Princess." She smiles and look at me, "Ally, what about Aubrey." "Babygirl." She nods and looks back at Austin, "Ally?" "Love." She looks at me and smiles, "Austin?" "Life." She leans back and looks between us. "Austin what about when I say marriage?" "Ally." She looks at me, "Ally, What about when I say marriage?" "Austin." Jennifer looks between us and nods. "Austin, what about babies?" "Kids." "Ally what about babies?" "My babies." She nods and looks between us, "Okay I have one more question in this little game. Austin, What about when I say… Brooke?" "Hot." I look at him and sigh, he really thinks that. Jennifer nods and looks at me, "All, what about when I say… Alex." "Sweet." She looks at me and tilts her head, "Okay, what about when I say Alex again." "Sexy." She nods and leans back looking at us.
"Okay, so you both think other people are hot and sexy, that is natural. It is all on what you do on it." We both nod and she turns to me than Austin. " Austin, there must be something you trust in Ally to let Alex watch her while you are gone. Or… is it him you trust." Austin groans, "I do not trust Alex. I trust Ally… Well, I don't know. I am worried about leaving them together. I don't like it one bit. I wish I didn't need him to be anywhere near her. I know she likes him and finds him attractive and her hormones… ugh. I don't know, I guess I don't trust any of them right now."
I gasp and he looks at me apologetically. "I'm sorry Ally, I… I know how your hormones get and I worry that you will be upset and he will come over and your hormones will kick your senses in more and one thing will lead to another…" I grab a pillow and hit him with it, "You think I am going to sleep with him!" I hit him again before he grabs the pillow and takes it from me, "Quit hitting me. Its just what I am worrying about, doesn't mean I think its going to happen, I just worry it is." I cross my arms and mumble, "Ally, Please speak up so Austin and I can hear you." I get mad, "I worry you are going to sleep with some slut."
Austin leans back in the couch and sighs, "This is fucking useless, we are getting no where." Jennifer sighs, " Austin, please." He sighs and looks at the wall. "Okay, you both seem stressed and anxious. Let's talk about worries, fears and this relationship." I nod and she turns to me, "Ally, what do you fear or worry about?" I sigh, "I worry that Austin is going to hurt me. I fear that Austin is going to leave me and the kids and want nothing to do with us. I fear that I am going to be alone. I worry about everything. I am five months pregnant and Austin is leaving for three months. I am going to be eight months when he comes back. I worry something is going to happen and I am going to have this baby early and he wont be here." By the end of talking I am crying.
Austin sighs and starts to talk, "Ally…" "Austin wait, before you talk. I want to know what you feel about what Ally just said." He starts to open his mouth and Jennifer shakes her head, "Not to me, to Ally."
Austin turns and grabs my hand. "Ally, I never in a million years wanted to hurt you. I can't promise to not to do it again because we don't know what's to come in the future but I can promise I am going to try my damn hardest to not. You and the kids mean the world to me. I love you and Aubrey so much and I cant wait for this little guy to get here." He places his hand on my stomach, "Ally, I don't want to lose you. I want to grow old with you and be with you forever. I love you so much and want this to work. I want us to go back to the way we were before all of this started. I want to be there for the birth of this baby as much as you want me there and I am sorry that I have to leave but I swear there is nothing I can do. I didn't want to go, I told Jimmy I couldn't go but he said I had no option. Ally, we can skype and call each other and email and text. Except this time don't blow me off."
I laugh a little and he smiles. "Ally, I promise we can make this work. If I could bring you with me I would. " I nod, "I know Austin, I just worry to much and my brain goes over drive and worries more than normal when I look like this and I see beautiful skinny people throwing themselves at you." He grabs my face and makes me look at him, "Ally, you are beautiful. I love you. I don't want them, I want you and only you. They all have eyes for me but I only have eyes for you." I smile and lean in kissing him. We pull away and he leans in to my ear, "I have a song to play you." I nod and we pull back.
Jennifer looks at us confused, "Okay, what happened?" I shrug, "This is what happens. We yell, fight and then make up. Sometimes it ends up with us leaving or breaking up but we always make up and get back together."
She looks at us and nods, "I heard you Austin say that you want things to go back to how they were before, what do you mean by that?" He sighs, "We use to hang out, have fun, and just be in love. We never had to work at anything, It all came so natural and now its like we are constantly working and truthfully I am tired of it. I want us back to how it use to be." Jennifer looks at me, "Ally, how do you feel about that?" I sigh, "I feel the same. I feel like now we have to work at everything. Everything was so easy before. Everything just came and we were happy, now I am happy but nothing like before. I love my kid and cant wait for this one but I miss the old us. I want that back."
Jennifer smiles and sets her pad down, "That's where it all comes down to. You guys think you have to try now. If you truly love each other and are meant to be then it will happen. Stop trying to be together and make it work. Let it all come naturally. Then everything will fall into place, the trust is something that should come back but if not then you have to rebuild that but don't try so hard, just let it happen. The hurt and worry wont be there because you will not feel like you are having to work to keep this going. I want you guys to stop trying so hard with this relationship. I see you love each other a lot but I feel like with you trying so hard you are ruining it. Go back to how it was before."
We stand and shake her hand, "Thank you so much." She shakes her head, "It was nothing." She walks us out the door and we walk out the building and to the car. Austin stops and pulls me to him, "Baby, she made so much sense. I have been trying so hard that I think I forgot that we never had to try in the first place." I smile and lean on him, "Me too, I thought if we tried everything would be okay." He laughs and kisses me, "I love you Ally. Everything is going to go back to normal, I promise." I smile, "I love you too. I promise it will too."
We get in the car and head home. "How was the appointment?" I smile, "It was great. I'm tired though, so I am going to go take a nap." I walk up the stairs and smile as I lay down in bed. Everything is going to be okay. The love and happiness is going to come back and we are going to be okay and be happy again. Our relationship is going to be how I remember it. I smile as I fall asleep thinking about the past and how the great we were together and excited to get back to that.
