Bag - your post was not preachy, and if it was sappy, then well, that is just another way of saying *loving*.
I can hardly bear to look back at myself at age 26, when I was young and married to a man who felt the way you felt in your journal passage, and yet I was so stupid that I could not see past my own nose...that poor young girl had not a clue how to really give and receive love, let alone make love.
I'm so glad you and your wife will get the chance to make your marriage work the right way.
