Its good that she has told you the blanket sorry did nothing....knowledge is the key. I really WANT to make my wife happy, but we've done what most others do in life and that is never to ASK one another what makes them happy but assume we know and do that. Its unfortunate, but I now recognize it and if we rebuild our relationship I want her to tell me what her LL are. Again I thought I knew but obviously I was wrong.
I read an interesting comment once....I really can't remember if it was here or elsewhere and it was talking about the golden rule....treat others the way you want to be treated etc....but truthfully you should be treating others the way THEY want to be treated, not necessarily the way you would want to be treated. Thats where part of my failure lies, but again, now I recognize it.