Thank you SRT, cat03, and grasshopper. I think I need your support as much as I need your advice right now.
It is true that I've tied up a great deal of my own happiness with hers. Whatever you want to call it, you're right when you point out that now the syndrome has come back to bite me you know where.
It seems that her complaints about my 'control' have a root in that as well.
I'm going to take some time to think about what you've said. Right now I feel too tapped out to write.