No, no, My wife is not acting. I have tried that strategy myself though. That IS what going dark, acting as if, and many of the other DB techniques ARE.
I have seen it work many, many times to get the WAW to come around enough to work on the relationship.
Me 35 Wife 34 Two daughters 8 years and 3 years Bomb 3/30/09 W filed 4/16/09 We met in'92 married in 2000 Divorce final