 Back off and give it as much time as it takes
...Even if its never. Swinging is a lifestyle that requires a tremendous amount of trust in both your partner and the people you swing with. Some people just can't bring themselves to trust another person that much, so they don't swing at all. Some can only bring themselves to trust certain people, or certain groups of people.
Trust, not love or respect, is the key to swinging, in my opinion. Trust that you won't be betrayed by your partner. Trust that you won't be exposed to people who would use knowledge of what you do against you. Trust that, at the end of the night, your partner is who you will be with, and not because you have no other choice but because you want to. And if a single person is involved, trust that that person will not try to replace one of the people.
That kind of trust isn't natural for us living in Western society, because we have been taught that there is only room in one's heart for one lover, and that we should be content with the limits that lover places on our sexual activities. For some, breaking free of that conditioning is next to impossible. For others, it just isn't desirable. You have to build her trust in you as a husband before you can go further. 15 months is not long enough to build that kind of trust in someone. If both of you had been swinging, or even if neither of you ever heard about it before, you would be coming into this from a similar point of view and there would be fewer doubts.
But look at it from her point of view. You are, in effect, asking her to have sex with you and one of your old girlfriends, and this only months after you have been married. I am not a woman, i've neer been married, but I've been in this situation and my first thought was "What, I'm not enough for you? You got to bring in one of your old sex partners to show me what I'm doing wrong? No, not just a man, but his wife too? WHAT! You were sleeping with his wife before they got married?"
If you give it time and no pressure, she will eventually become curious. If you don't back off a little, she's just going to be resentful.
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