CeMar:
What kinds of things have you been doing to accomplish the first suggestion on your list?
Cause the second one is completely up to your wife and no amount of you venting here is going to accomplish that goal. You might reply that you have been living that goal for years but you really haven't. You are bitter and angry about it and I don't think true acceptance comes with those things.
So what have you done, to accomplish your part of the happy marriage equation?