The same exact words from my H.
Last year, the same thing happened to me. He was talking about separating, and when I took him up on it and told him that I would rather just have a D and be done with it, he suddenly backed down and said what if he could not survive without me?
It is NORMAL for their abnormal wy of thinking - it is because they are conflicted, and both sides, both choices almost weigh as much as each other. It depends upon us to tip it to one side. Right now in your case, at least your H still says he loves you, and the balance is really very much tipped on to your side.
What will you do? Nothing. You cannot fix him or make up his mind for him.


Me:49 H:45 D:12 M:14 T:18
Bomb: 6/26/10
EA: 9/3/10, fizzled out slowly, now ???
11/5/11 Retrouvaille
Finally piecing....
Its peaceful at last, but we got a looong way to go