Today’s drink is Tinto de Verano. Tinto is what the Spanish call red wine. Verano means summer. So, we are drinking the red wine of summer, which is kind of a glass by glass ready-made sangria.
Chryssy started drinking this drink during her travels in Spain, and you can make it with a little of this and a little of that. Usually, she uses a Spanish Rioja as the base. So fill a wine glass with ice, pour red wine a little more than halfway and then add something fizzy.
In Spain, it’s usually a peach soda that isn’t sold in the states, so today we used a clementine soda and added some pomegranate juice. You can literally use whatever - to taste. We like to add fruit, usually oranges, but today was strawberries and blueberries and even a little jackfruit because Chryssy just discovered the stuff and thought it might be fun in a drink.
Foreplay runs long today, because we really liked what we were doing here.
We talked about how our houses – physically and in terms of rules – changed once we were not married to the people we once were. We discussed how OK or not OK we are with our exes entering our space, and Chryssy thinks Brian needs to make some life adjustments. We also talked about our feelings on living with someone new and took a brief interlude into the joys of spending time at a partner’s house where there aren’t many responsibilities.
Finally making it to the down and dirty, it was quick. We talked about the similarities and differences in ourselves as partners to new people and the role self-awareness plays in keeping it real.
Maybe someday these two will find the right people to tolerate their quirks. And if not, they’ll just keep talking it out in Not Quite Therapy.
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