Long time no howdy. Doesn't mean I haven't been pulling for you in absentia.
Plus you asked for a pep talk. POOF.
So let me get this straight, I'm a little slow sometimes.
Your H has been testing your commitment to him and your R via marital bed spooning depreivation and actual physical distancing.
Yep, sounds like a pretty bass ackwards way of going about solution-based therapy.
If he keeps this up you'll be down to just bread and water and an hour in the sun in another 3 years, sweetheart.
IMO there is no end timeline for him. This goes way way back to my comment about his outside circle of friends. I know it's tiny. Still, he needs either an IC or a male friend or some other kind of outside influence (parents?) to sit him down and ask him how this setup he's orchestrating is moving you both down the path of a happy relationship and nuclear family. Hmmmm
-Stigmata-
The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is the warrior views everything as a challenge; the ordinary man views everything as either a blessing or a curse.
-Yaqui shaman Don Juan-
...and that holds 2x true for nice guy wussies, DJ