My thoughts. Even a blind man can tell when he is walking in the sun. I find it interesting that your H deploys some very passive aggressive controlling techniques on you and you may not realize it. An example would be contacting you around when you were moving. All his actions to open up with you always happen when you are doing something for yourself. Just enough to keep you in the place where he wants you to be. Same now with your trip... He builds up the contact. Just enough. You have mentioned that you deploy control with anger. A very wise good friend described anger to me like it was holding a ball underwater. It eventually must surface.
Here is the quote that made me think of you!! Maybe this helps?
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