keep detaching. Does that send a message like you dont care and dont want the R? It could
If that's the message you think you may be sending then something's wrong in how this is being handled. The message you want to send is this:
I really love you and care all about you, but I'm not crazy "in love" with you anymore. Nope. I love being with you and around you and when we share time together it's great ans wonderful, but... It's not that I don't want the R, it's that I don't really need to have this R. It would be nice, but, hey! It's not going to be, and I'm OK with that. I've got things to do, places to go, people to see. I love my life. Everyday, there's something new and wonderful added to it!
Sherry, JVJKB got her life going and was cheery, positive, vague and indifferent to H, who started seeing her as a changed person he didn't recognize anymore and he was losng her. That reality touched something inside him, and he decided he didn't want to lose her.