Or, could you change the rountine of the weekends a little - I don't know if you have already tried that.
It seems like he relies on you as a safety net when the children are around. What do you normally do on the weekends together?
Is there a way of changing something? Using another of Michelle's techniques? Something less extreme, but maye more effective, than just cutting contact.
The reason people picked up on his complimenting you is that (it is written, obviously I am not a man so don't know) that generally men don't notice women they have no attraction to.
