H seeing FOW...again

[courageouswife]

I went out with a friend last night,
(background, we used to be really close and used to bowl and go out w/her and her H a lot. Her H started working where my H used to work and a day job became available. They both signed for it and her H got it even though my H had worked there longer...it caused some hard feelings on my H's part and although she and I still talked ocassionally, my H didn't want to hang with them anymore)

My friend brought this up...
About a year after my H came home, my friends H's Mother passed away. We ran into them and my H stopped him and said how sorry he was about the Mother passing away and then said that he knew he had made some mistakes and was hoping to make amends to them etc. H was in tears when he said all this and we all ended up in tears.

She said that she really believed that the old H was back (as did I) and was happy for us and had hoped to rekindle our friendships but as we all know, life gets in the way and we are busy etc. and we just never made time for it.

I guess I am just wondering, since H obviously never left the replay stage, was he just peeking out for a bit? Anyone have any insight?