First of all, congratulations. I won’t even try to explain it. Like my W’s recent activity, it’s just one of those mysteries of nature. From everything you wrote, I can’t see anything different.
The sensory overload problem can be a real problem. The LD wife finally comes across, but since it’s been so long, things are over way too quickly. The LDW doesn’t get much out of it, so even if you make Herculean efforts to see to it that she DOES get “hers”, she’s still left with reinforcement that LM is something “for you”. Kind of sucks doesn’t it.