Talk to my W please! She needs some of your "enlightenment."
Chris, when my kids were your kids' ages, I was about as LD as you can get. I had all the usual LD stuff going on: I was exhausted and probably more depressed than I realized, had a lot of anger/resentment, was fused in my maternal, "grown up" role, and just did not "get" why sex would still be important. I remember also needing the "perfect" set of circumstances to feel good enough about my H to ML.
So you see, change is most definitely possible. I was HD in my past so I did have that going for me.