Don't underestimate or minimize the importance of sex to HD wives. I left my H after 10+ years of struggling along in a sex-starved marriage. I left for the same reasons that I have read in many of your posts and the posts of other HD spouses - my needs for sex and physical intimacy weren't being met.
I, as a HD woman, need the same sorts of things you do, CeMar. And I don't place less importance on them because I am a woman.
I'm not the first one to say this, but I don't think it's a man/woman issue. It's a HD/LD issue. Please don't assume that HD woman don't need sex/physical intimacy as much as HD men - we do, and it hurts and demoralizes us as much as it does HD men to be married to a LD spouse.