OK, if anyone is still reading, I have an update and a question. I have continued to work on my friendship with my wife and we are getting along much better. She is even confiding in me with problems she is having with other parents at the school and similar issues that are bothering her. I have made an effort to be of more help around the house and to get some projects done that I have left undone for one reason or another. She was right in complaining about those.
Now, we still have not had any kind of real sex since just after Christmas. I only look her in the eye even when she is naked as I am working to shut off all physical desire for her.
Question: What does this do to her? My goal is not to punish her (don't throw me in that briar patch!) but to get me to a point where I can live next to a woman indefinitely without having sex. ie, conversion to a sister. But will she see this as rejection even though she has no interest in sex? I am not looking to get her to pull the trigger here. My primary motive is self preservation.