So much negative crap that you can't control. I agree with your decision to explore how to change things up. I wouldn't want to be stuck like this either.
Anniversaries suck when you're stuck in limbo, nothing you can do about that.
Do you need to speak to him at all? It just seems like it hurts you too bad. What would happen if he calls your daughter again, tells your daughter he'd like to talk to you, and you just said "no thanks"? Not talking, text, calling back my WW did a lot for me to take away the power she had over me. Your H might see it as a game as my wife did, but of course it's not, and you're doing it to protect yourself from him. It's a reaction.
H 34 W 29 BD 3/12/18 Divorce Busted Spring 19
It is not things that bother us, but the stories we tell ourselves about things.