I think Coach has giving you great advice in the past, and I print out posts as reminders for myself. Many of his thoughts, yours, and 25MLC are amongst those. I like this one about the elephant.

While you wait for Coach to respond, I have a question for you about the email you sent your wife. What change, if any, have you observed in your wife since the email? Any shift in terms of respect, boundaries, communication, etc? Just curious...