Also, when he returns to his regular squad, he will be working with the female partner -- the one he had developed feelings for. She also tried to convince him to divorce me several times over, so there is no lost love between us.
Well, there's your problem, right there, W.A.N. So long as he went back in contact with her, he's never going to be open to you emotionally. It's a chemical thing, from what I've learned. This is why you see "No contact means no contact" so much on these threads (like Pensacola's wife's TKD example).