Yes, in the early days there was a certain tango we danced: it's the dance or distance and pursuit. Though yours seems significantly more in tune as he asks how you are doing.
My best advice? Try hard not to watch it all. It's hard to do in the beginning but once you begin to do, you get a morsel of sanity and some semblance of freedom from the lunacy.
Me 41, H 47, M 15 yrs, S11, S13 BD 1: 11/4/14 we work on it; really I pretzel myself BD 2: 3/31/15 H goes down to "dorm room" 8/15: H back to MBR 10/15: H back in dorm room 1/18: H files, now divorced