I will continue to pull away and see if it gets any reaction out of W sometime soon. I'm not overly optimistic though.
Navy,
You are still -- nearly 3 years into this -- doing things for the WRONG REASON.
You don't pull away to get a reaction out of your wife. You pull away to get on with YOUR life, and to emotionally protect yourself while you do.
As for this:
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W continues to treat me like crap. I am continuing to gradually get to where I will not put up with it.
, I'm just shaking my head. Crap behavior is crap behavior, and one doesn't "gradually get to the point where they don't put up with it." These boundaries should be laid out IMMEDIATELY when someone is giving you the CB.