After reading your return post, I have to say I agree with NOPkins. I didn't mean to imply that you were without intellectual 'suaveness,' or that you hadn't tried those things already; I was just saying that this could be what is going on inside your wife, and you could choose to rise to the occassion. Or not.
I'd be really interested in hearing what the shrink says about your wife's NEEDS list, balanced against your needs and where she suggests the two of them converge. I cannot imagine any shrink thinking that going 6 months without ML is a good thing.