C,

Honey, I am so so sorry for the latest development in your sitch. Enbabling parents, uh?

An observation from my perch and please feel free to correct me if I'm way off base. It seems to me that your H is an easily impressionable person. Meaning that he absorbs whatever thoughts and ideas from others and acts them out instead of owning them as his. To me, it screams a person with low self-confidence. Right? Wrong?

Has H always been this way with his family? Throughout the M?

Also I get the sense that H desperately DOES NOT WANT to come across as the bad guy in breaking up the M hence the mental gymanstics with semantics and hair splitting comments.