Hi Mila, Give time, time - time for you to get comfortable with the strategies you have started to use - immediate results aren't in MLC land - as well you know.
Sounds to me as if his MLC has been brewing for years and you have ingrained behaviours with each other - rituals and dances he knows and he has an expectation of how you will react. Nothing chnages if you still behave as the same Mila.
As one old (and very irritating) boss used to say to me "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got"
((hugs))
lalxx
Choose Life Me: 45 Him: 44 S:11 D:8 Met in 1992 Married in 1995 Bomb drop September 30th 2009 Divorce final April 16th 2011 exH Marries OW June 17th 2011