he worries that you don't want his hugs anymore and then when you ML he closes his eyes. hummmm lets see here now he is depressed. Well, the Scotch just makes that worse, maybe you should conveniently run out of that stuff. Let him know that you are there for him and distance yourself a bit. He probably is withdrawing from OW a bit. He is battling right now. It seems that he has a lot of guilt that he is carrying, you can forgive him all you want, but he needs to forgive himself I think before he can open his eyes. time, patience, you know the drill. He seems to be very clingy when it comes to those hugs, it seems that you must validate erverything with a hug, when you leave for work, leave the room to do laundry--I think he was insurance that you still love him, even though you have displayed this in so many ways, right now his head is in a fog and just knowing that you are there for him is so good, but he needs to get out of this fog on his own.