The reason I am even posting about this is because H. normally doesn't call me on my lunch hour

There's nothing normal about your h right about now, except for normal WAS behavior, you know?

What is so bizarre is how he's so far left one day, and then so far right the other. Yesterday, he's talking about apts., and legal separation, and never coming back. Today he's calling to share little things about his day, the way he used to.

Lesson learned? Lesson learned? Maybe it's to "listen not to what they say???" and spare yourself some daily flips on the rollercoaster?

He probably feels less pressure now because he's got impending separation disanxiety.

when one of the spouses cannot carry their load the other one has to pick it up until the other spouse can carry their share. How many times as our spouse had to pick up our share? One day you may be in need of them to pick up our load.

To which I'd add: "In the meantime, get a load of the load they feed us!"