If your project is not well received, would you consider yourself a failure as a wife? Would you feel completely rejected as a human being. Would you be willing to do ANYTHING to have a well received project. This is exactly how HD spouses feel EVERY time we get rejected for sex. In fact, it does not even require rejection. If the LD spouse does not initiate sex, the inaction of the LD spouse is the same thing as rejection. If I look at things in my life, I can not find ANYTHING that even compares to the wonders of having a lover. My career in comparison to having a lover is NOTHING. I can not think of anything in my life that is even remotely close to having a lover in importance.