Thank you Sara! I was hoping for some sort of positives/encouragement for my situation.
It is true, he has a 'project' now, and he told me himself that spending his kidless evenings working on the house will give him lots of 'thinking time' to try to sort himself out.
I need to just trust that I have shown him unconditional love, but that I am also independent and capable of being on my own, that I don't 'need' him. All I can do is keep on going with my life and let him figure out his...