Harry - I know what you're saying and I think that's part of her conflict, to try to put what I see happening into words.
She's torn. At least from my perspective. She loves and wants to have our marriage and relationship continue/succeed/thrive if you will. And yet now, yes, mostly my own doing, she's seen and felt the kind of excitement and sexual fulfillment she wants.
She hasn't mentioned it explicitly but I do still firmly believe she sees all of this as something she wants now with the goal that in another 2 years or so when our kids are out of the house, that she and I will then have our time. Some of how she's described things - her affair desire, to how she describes what she feels/wants with Robert - they all seem to have some sort of time-frame when they will end or fade. Maybe that's what I'm imagining, not sure, but I think it's there.
But I said she's torn - and I'm pretty convinced of this now - that this is the first time I want her to make the decision about Robert and what she wants. Like I said, before it was me, or even back when she was with Don, it was him suggesting or telling her what he wanted. Maybe as Will says - she wants to be a bit of a submissive and not have responsibility for this decision.
That's why I'm trying, as Robert is, to suggest we just let things happen. I think she expected this thing with Robert to have some sort of definite start-date - as of May 1st or whatever, that she'd begin to develop her desires or would make some sort of decision about sex with me for the future. I know in her head, she wanted that to be the admission of her affair (or desire of) and for that to be when she might begin denying me, etc., as she wanted to develop that attraction and feeling for him. But I'd never expected that - well maybe in fantasy - but that I'd never really expected a fixed date for anything. Maybe she's seeing that this would be okay - or more that she should just let things happen and not fight them if they did.
I know I'm rambling on here but what I'm trying to get at is that I still think she wants to let herself go with Robert and see what happens and that she's, in a way, struggling with her own desires this time. So Harry, while I know she wants to feel love from me, I also know that she does want to try and explore this - yes knowing it turns me on is an influence, and maybe that's what she's trying to sort out, how much desire does she have if she excludes my being turned on about it - maybe that's her dilemma, how to reconcile that? Just thinking out loud.