You're seeing it...great...because as a woman, let me tell you there is nothing attractive about a man who is pleading, begging and suffocating...of course that is not attractive for either sex but for a man, never...I don't care what women may say publically or to their GFs but deep down we really want our men to be strong for us...we depend on you emotionally and physically, more than you will ever know. Women admittedly, may be a bit more complicated to figure out then men are but deep down, I think it just boils down to everyone has the basic need of being loved...
And see how she has already picked up on it...keep with it...find the man that she fell in love with...I bet he wasn't begging and pleading? Was he...nah, he was someone else. Her knight in shining armour.
And no, you are correct, no one can say how anyone else would have reacted if the shoe had been on the other foot...look at the women on here that have their Hs that have left them...including myself...we are(were) going through the same things as you...it all depends on the person, their love for their WAS...etc.