Choc, The affection would not have worked for me. Confrontation would not have worked with me. What did work for me? Feeling that my H was emotionally abandoning me. All the while, I had a foot out the door, not realizing that he had a foot and a half out. That's what woke me up.
She knew that. That didn't work. Whoever came up with "He who cares the least, wins" never met the fetching Mrs. Choc.