When you are feeling low, we are here to lift you up. And that includes helping you to set boundaries and demand respect from your extraordinarily selfish H.
He deserves a swift kick in the arse.
See how we you are recognizing the patterns? The minute you are not following him around, he feels that absence.
RL you have loved him for this long and put up with an enormous amount of crap with an amazingly amount of grace. Time to give him what he appears to be begging for. Leave him the heck alone. No more trying to get his attention. He needs to get your attention in a good way.
His loss.
No one whose heart is as big as yours will ever not love. You have that gift.