Here's something else to consider, something that I was told (and did NOT want to hear!) in my own sitch:
If you don't do a mix of things that re-build RESPECT with a wife who's with am OM1 (GAL, working on your own side of the street, establishing firm financial and legal boundaries, etc., etc.) . . . and you just "wait out" the affair with OM1? Yeah, your wayward wife WILL turn back to you, her "Backup Plan," while she . . .