I'd just joined the community here and was doing that massive thread-a-thon you do when you first join and read a lot about A's and MLC's and the like -- suspecting (correctly, I still believe) that WAW was in the midst of both.
This behavior you describe mit Deiner Frau in Deutschland when S17 was visiting triggers my memory circuits. It's a long road, isn't it, from A to not-A? With lots of opportunities for back-sliding, as I understand it.
How far down the road do you think German Wife is? And with respect to @goingtofixME's post, I think the question implied by the question you ask at the bottom of your "About Me" sig is THE question -- when we (LBS's) backslide, we flog ourselves here on the boards until someone inevitably says, hey don't worry about it, backslides are inevitable -- just keep on truckin'.
So how many backslides does one (you, me, anyone) tolerate from Wayward until we take our football and go home?
That, I suspect, is the essence of @goingtofixME's critical point: "I had to sit down and so some soul searching."
Nasty work, this DB'ing. A graduate education in self-assessment.