"Real love" and "love you as a man". We all want to be loved. And your wife does love you. And you said you do love her. What you are missing is passion. Spark, admiration, intimacy, sexual intimacy, excitement. And if you both felt all these now, in the MIDDLE of this crisis, (that didnt just occur overnight), you would be...weird to say the least.
Somehow your wife's words triggered so much hurt and pride. Good thing in a way, IMO. Because it gives you the edge to be somemone a woman would admire.
Be careful where you lead your thoughts now. K
I don't think the words hurt me so much as really made me realize how she felt. Peeled away all the denial and wishful thinking on my part.
