Cathy nodded, mulling something over in her mind. "You haven't really had to see that side of me," she told him. "But...I am. I can be." It wasn't something she was proud of, but a pretty consistent failing nonetheless. She had been selfish in her friendships, in her marriage--stubborn, unwilling to compromise when it was most needed and failing to notice until after the damage had been done. While it would have been easy to blame the whole thing on Jamie (after all, he had been the one to find someone else), she was forced to examine herself. Furthermore, Cathy had to come to terms with the fact that she had a long way to go before she could mold herself into the person she wanted to be.
Her experience with Lindsey had obviously been different, already more fulfilling in ways she could never have thought possible. It startled her every time she stepped back and reminded herself that they had been together less than a year--and, admittedly, made her a little nervous. Yet she had no doubts about him, despite their differences in the way they thought, acted, and lived. Cathy could disagree with him from sunrise to sunset, but if the decision was hers to make, she would never change him for the world. Doing so would make him a stranger, not the man she had fallen in love with.
She laughed. "I'd demand that you watch," she notified him. "It'd be too proud a moment for me to keep all too myself."