SuprDave:

This sounds exactly like MY relationship. I too have to hold WAY back. If I did the things that I want to do, she would be completely overwelmed. The LD sees this as being "Needy". Us HD people need to much physical closeness. It is the difference in love languages. I want EVERYTHING physically, she wants talking with at least 3 feet between us. I too suspect that our LD wives KNOW they there is virtually no chance that they will ever be women enough for us. It also makes it hard for me to actually put forth much effort to meet her needs, since I know that there is less then a 50/50 chance of her ever being able to meet even my minimum needs. Now the question all of us HD men has to ask is would it be easier to work on correcting the situation with our wives, or with starting all over and developing a new relationship with someone else. So then the question becomes, which has the greater probablity of achieving what we want, a HD relationship? A new relationship, or the old wife?