Yes, he did tell me that and a lot of other things in a letter he wrote about 3 months into our separation last year when I told him I'd had enough of the fence sitting and was going to file for dissolution of our meritricious relationship.
It was a very long letter and I may post parts of it here at some point. It had a lot of eye-opening revelations from a wayward spouse who'd just recently returned from lala land and might be helpful to someone around here to read.