Losing her power, her value after holding on to it for so long was a horrible, scary experience - traumatic even based on the above description.
Hesitation was right though.
How could you reconcile a relationship with someone like that, who basically admits, I've had affairs but i'm not going to talk about them because I have value and I don't need to explain myself to you plus I'm so high value, you should take this deal without even thinking about it, you're lucky I'm even putting it up as an option.
And boy what a fun marriage that would be to reconcile ;-)