............but it feels like 2 weeks. So much has happened in the last two days I don't even know where to begin. 
 
I guess I should start by telling you all how I found out about my wife IMing with this guy she knew in high school. After I came to my senses and started trying to make things better, I started getting suspicious that something was going on. She was spending a lot of time on the computer, and would switch windows when I came into the office. I started suspecting something so I installed a trial spy program. About the only thing it got me was her password for email, which I had always known but that she had changed because I had gone into her account. So I started monitoring her emails without her knowledge. It also gave me access to her address book, and I was able to glean all of the aol.com addresses of it and start looking into whom she might be chatting with. 
 
There was only a couple of names that really made me wonder. I quickly was able to weed one out, so that left one suspicious address. To make matters worse my wife forget her AIM password and set-up a new screen name. I logged on as her new name, which she had only had a day, and there on her buddy list was me, and this other guy. :( I was no really suspicious. A new screen name and within hours she had him added to her buddy list. So I bought a spy program this time, and installed it and bam, found some very intimate IM exchanges, THE SECOND DAY!!! I was not happy, but we discussed things and as I said she ended communication. 
 
Things were good for two weeks afterward, though I could tell she was sad and she admitted that she missed this guy. Well, I started getting the inkling that she might be emailing him so I installed another spy program, the first one just captured IMs. This was two days ago. So yesterday I monitored her outgoing emails for the first time and she typed a longggggggg email to some friends of hers about how she had these deep feelings for this guy, a guy she chatted in IMs with for 5 weeks. And how she was attracted to me. And other stuff, but you get the gist. She then emailed him asking how he felt and to be honest. 
The whole time (even in the emails to these people) she maintains that the marriage is important to her and she doesn't want to leave and that she doesn't understand her attraction to this guy she barely knows (they hadn't talked in over 20 years). She said in her email to her friends that she SO wants to want to be in love with me, but she thinks of this guy from songs, and wants to be at places we go together with him. 
 
I was pretty shaken up. She could tell I was privy to some stuff and was suspicious and started poking around her PC to try to find the spy program (the spy program showed me all of that!).  
 
So last night I went home (in her email she mentioned to this guy that if he was more comfortable talking on the phone instead of email and IM because of what I might see she would do that), and I disabled the software. I told her she was free to do what she wanted because obviously if I kept escalating measures to cut her off from this guy she would escalate measures to get around them. She assures me she isn't going any where and just wants to let this thing with him diminsh. She thinks that will happen this way (though I'm not so sure). 
 
Anyway, here is the darndest part: our marriage is better than it has been in months! My being shaken scared her into thinking I was giving up on my changes (which I have not). She was so affectionate last night. She held my hand and not just limply like in the last few weeks, but squeezed my hand and stroked my fingers with hers. She hugged me like someone that is saying goodbye to the love of their life! It was amazing. And her kisses were passionate and deep and literally knocked my socks off. 
And we made love last night and this morning. It was incredible. She says she is committed to making this work for us and that she still isn't 100% but that Dr. Phil says you have to act your way to success, so she is trying to do that. She loves me so much, and so wants to find that attraction for me again.  
 
I wrote the guy an email today. I basically told him that I didn't blame him or her, that i blame myself. She told me early on that if things were good between us she would never have chatted with this guy. I told him that I had disabled the spy software and that he and her were free to chat. I told him that I thought there would be boundaries that neither would cross and that I'd hope he'd chat to her the way he'd want me to chat to his wife. So I am stepping out on faith here. This morning I left for work and I felt naked because I didn't have the security of the spy program to keep tabs on things. But I guess this is part of healing and rebuilding trust. 
What do you guys think? Am I doing the right thing? What would you do in my situation? 
 
Anyway, since this is the sex board, 3 times in the last two days! And 4 times since Saturday. :) Now if I could only recapture her heart. :( 
 
Oh and she came out here and read all of my posts! :) I think that is a good sign that she is ready to start opening back up to make our marriage the best it can be. I LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!