Okay yes. This is a thing I do sometimes--jump the gun on things out of anxiety. "Pre-worrying" as it was called above.
Okay, you guys have said some helpful things. Thank you for that.
To clarify one thing--I said in the OP that it was kind of like "She'll do it for more sex, and I'll do it...
Other than my wife I have no one to talk to about this--and part of what I'm doing here is psyching myself up for that talk. I hope this is okay. I'm basically going to lament a relationship that has gone pretty horribly wrong. Am I looking for advice? I'm not sure. But I wouldn't reject it.
My...