sandi, i'm trying Not to act like a brother or friend. But i am being told not to press for intimacy or R talk. So how do become the "husband", not the friend-brother.?
Don't talk about the relationship ever from now on.
If she wants to talk about it, let her bring it up, from now on that's no longer your job.
Stop using the "intimacy" word, your wife is looking for a good "pounding" (yes graphic description), she's not looking for some slow, passionate lovin, she wants some good old fashioned physical sex and you aren't offering that - when are you going to open your eyes and see that?