@Gordie, @sjohns6: this is just my opinion here but I am going to be a downer/reality check here.
I would not spend ANY time reading tea leaves, interpreting behaviours for positive or negative, not try to "understand" what triggered anything. I believe when our spouses are in the throws of MLC disorder nothing makes sense, nor is motivated by normal emotional events. My latest example was my wife coming to dinner with me, hugs, even intimacy, holding my arm and leaning into me on walks back (hasn't happened in years), and then three weeks later with nothing going on (except being apart) announcing that we should go our separate ways. Can't say I was surprised, because the cycles will be there until fundamental and long term changes are made.
I think the basic being detached, not reacting, and at some level NOT caring about the good nor the bad is the only way to survive in the long term. As HB has said take what you get that is positive and don't read much into it. The roller coaster is still there.
