I am so proud of you. This is awesome and amazing news. He communicated his gratitude to you - this is huge. He really feels loved and so do you. a DB SUCCESS STORY! Yeah~
TOTALLY GET THE PHONE THING. My H distances from me by constantly being glued to that phone - constantly looking, holding, texting....I agree with your intuition. If my H put that thing down I'd know we had come a long way toward intimacy and openness again. Go girl!