Quote: Anyone out there have anything to add before I write a novelette myself?
No, Lass, I think you summed it all up very well. I do have a comment though.
Quote: I implore you to try to think of something that is so important to you (something you feel you cannot live without), then imagine not having it (you can see it, you can smell it, and almost touch it...but you can't have it)...then add to it the fact that your partner has the ability to give you what it is you're missing but for some unknown reason can't or won't.
Right there you said something I've been struggling forever trying to get across. Celibacy would be difficult for me under any conditions, but celibacy while living in close proximity with a woman I adore and fiercely desire is pure hell. I can't begin to describe what it does to me when she comes to bed naked and snuggles up to me when we haven't ML in months. But she'll do it every night. Arrrrrggggh!