Agreed with the above poster your main focus should be on the conversation with the wife. Also, no offense but to me this just sounds like you're trying to show off being a platinum premiere and feel a sense of entitlement to it. What brings about your sense of entitlement? The fact you've planned 200 days of travel with Marriott? I captured 270 last year and only managed Platinum and am completely fine with that. The fact you were previously Platinum Premiere? From my understanding PP's are determined on a yearly basis on a number of unknown factors and encompasses the top 1% of Platinums so how do you know that you would have requalified this year for PP to begin with? If you truely love Marriott so much, then you wouldn't be so quick to admit you might hop ship to SPG (and if you all too freely throw the word love around then that is another topic in and of itself). Also, I don't think SPG is gonna magically make you Platinum Preferred VIP either (yes the equivalent to PP).

Also if you dropped to Platinum this year and didn't have the travel to requalify for Platinum then you will be dropped to Gold (I believe) next year so I don't foresee MR as being forthcoming in reinstating your PP status. They may however allow you to keep Platinum status or offer you the opportunity to buy it back (as some have reported).