KJ - have you noticed, your H consistantly does this ...
[quote]H texts me "Sorry I didn't hear back from you today. Are we not talking now?"..quote]
whenever you are truely over him and deliberately and sincerely back away he comes forward. He feels it and it feels uncomfortable to him.
In the spirit of doing-what-works, on the basis of what you write here, distancing and detaching affect your husband and focusses him back on you... you know you have been giving him a pretty easy ride ....
V
Never make someone a priority, who makes you an option.