What values do you believe build a strong relationship? For me, that is honesty, trust, transparency, kindness, accountability, and love.
and copious amounts of sex
Interesting aside. SO when I found out she was chatting with this guy, she mentioned that he was sex-starved, and that they bonded over that with my W saying she identified with his W. That he wanted more sex, they hadn't had sex in a month, and that my W couldn't remember the last time we had sex.
I pointed out that our sex life had been much more frequent, and the quality was way up. She said "Has it?" I was incredulous. I said, we've averaged at least once a month, if not more, including March of 2018 when we did it about 10 times in 2 weeks, and that she had initiated almost every time during that 2 week period. She had no recollection. It was crazy. Admittedly. her memory has never been that great, but I would think she'd at least acknowledge how much better our sex life has been. And while it diminished a bit over the summer due to house guests, we still had sex just a couple weeks before this discussion with her online friend.
M(53), W(54),D(19) M-23, T-25 Bomb Drop - Dec.23, 2017 Ring and Piecing since March 2018