OIN's gotten plenty of advice, some of it "good" and some of it "bad", but effective. In some cases our wives are working out of a "bad" realm, and attempts to woo them back doing "good" usually does not work, and we just get taken advantage of.
Of course I would never tell anyone to hit their wife.
Oh, what do we win when we realize that the battle our wife is having us in is "issuance of damage"... I'm not sure we win anything good. Maybe you win a broken heart and a wayward spouse and if your smart a divorce.
I hope the best for you and that she comes back around, you sound like a very good man.