I appreciate that you dug deep. We all have to do that.
The other end of this spectrum is the part where your EXW loses hope.......The problem is when it would take an impossible superhuman effort to give her what she needed. These are the cases that no matter how perfect you are this would happen to you or it would have been someone else.
I have looked back and thought of all the changes I made, both beneficial for me as well as things not so beneficial.
We all have to access where we stand on the spectrum of unconditional love for our spouse without losing our independent side.
Thank you for continually sharing your journey. I still learn things each day from the forums that help me be a better father, person and maybe eventually a partner for someone else. I will not hurry that part up.