..right now they do behave like teenagers and are asserting their independence...last time they did that was to free themselves from their mothers...so maybe it has something to do with comparing us to their moms.
This sentence ^^^^^^^ in your last e-mail caught my attention because I am at the point of flirting with XH (encouraged by Missherlove). Maybe we need to act toward our WAH's in a way that can't be confused with their mothers, if you get what I mean. They may not respond in kind, but it might help to make them separate us from their mothers.......AND...........show them that we can hold our own against the OW/GFs.....Just a thought that I'm throwing out there.
For example, I went to visit XH's mother a couple days before Thanksgiving. To my surprise I found a grade school photo of XH on X-MIL's kitchen table. I had never seen that photo before, so I took a photo of it with my cell phone and texted it to XH with the message "Wanna meet behind the Jungle Jim at recess?"..........XH didn't reply to the text, but the next day in an e-mail exchange he mentioned something about how cute girls will be more likely to be touched by TSA agents (XH knew I was flying the next day), so I think my comment registered on some level with him