So she will wake up in OM's bed to a text from her son asking her to please do something for her.
Probably won't make a scrap of differnece though unless she manages to see thru the fog that she isn't there for her kids, but I can have a small amount of hope can't I.
Yes, you can have hope, but I think that hope is lost if it is placed in "her". Your hope has to be in God (if you are a Believer) and in yourself as a man. I know it is talked about over & over again, but when it's the truth there isn't much use of saying anything else. That truth is that she has to be attracted to you and that comes from respecting you as a man & her H. Nothing else (housework, parenting skills, etc.) will be as affective as that. Your job will be to become the man she once respected and loved enough to marry. It is a lot harder to gain the respect back...once it is lost, but it is not impossible.....and I can testify to that personally.
It is not about what you feel should work in your M. It is about doing the work that gets the right results. Do what works!