He told you exactly what we all thought: He noticed you went on living w/out him and it scared him to death.
That is what we're supposed to do w/DBing...live for ourselves and if the other one comes back and wants to join in, then great!
He doesn't know how much you masked things and he really doesn't need to know either. You showed him what he was missing...YOU! He got the message, but I agree w/Michelle that he wouldn't have if you wouldn't have been DBing all along.
