Scotch, work on detachment more. As in not constantly trying to evaluate if your plan of action is "working".
Your plan of action is ultimately to make YOU an amazing person not control your wife.
If you separate and even divorce is that a dealbreaker for you? What I mean is maybe she does need for the marriage to truly end before she can work on her issues, and turn back to you for a healthy new marriage.
Example..... my ex husbands parents divorced when he was in 4th grade, they dated other people/were completly done with their marriage. They then started dating again his freshman year of college. They never legally remarried but wear rings/live together/are committed to each other for the past 15 years.

Let her go, don't script this conversation so much that you're spending more time/energy planning it then you will spend actually having the conversation. I know how badly it hurts, trust me I remember the pain, I still feel the pain.

What are some of your W 'complaints' that you agree are areas that need improvement in yourself? Let's make a list and start working on YOU for the simple fact that you WANT to be a better person.


Me: 35 husband:39
Sons 16 and 11 from my first marriage
Twins 5 (boy/girl)
Daughter 3
Affair bomb 2/27/14
He moved in with ow 3/13/14
OW kicked him out 6/15/14
4/2016 he seeks help for sexual addiction