I can imagine how it must be driving you crazy, him coming round one evening then just nothing. As strange as this may seem, it is a normal pattern. They sometimes feel that they have 'surrendered' too much power then pull away.
Your GAL program sounds fantastic. It takes time for real results to develop. Hang in there. What helped me a lot was participating in as many threads as I could find time for. Seeing the same problem from a different perspective can be - illuminating-.
