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I posted a few weeks ago and usually I am pretty good about keeping up with forums (Cars, Cameras, etc...) but I have been too tired and drained to keep up with this one. Sorry.

My WW wrote the NC letter a month ago and since then things have been calm and almost normal. We go out to dinner, meet with friends and play with the kids. She has broken all contact with the OM (I still monitor her calls) and she realizes what a mistake she has made. She says that she wants to be with me and have a loving long-term relationship but at the same time she says she doesn't feel that intimate feeling with me and has refused to have any sexual relations. It's been 3 months for us when for 15 years of marriage we were having relations 3x per week.

I want to "try" to begin some physical relations again to see if we could regain some of that intimacy but she refuses and says that one day it will just hit her and she will come to me. I believe that we have to work at our marriage including having sex and I am starting to get frustrated. How can she claim to love me, want to be with me but not "feel it" enough to want to be physical with me. This will be a big topic at our next MC meeting.
I wanted to see if any-one had a similar experience.
Thanks, jd

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Sounds like she is still in withdrawal. That is very normal. Are you spending 15 hours a week doing fun things, WITHOUT the kids?

Your situation sounds very promising to me. Have you figured out what her emotional needs are? Have you been meeting the top ones?


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