if you are honest with yourself, is probably REALLY what you are looking for to be happy. Not sex once a week.
LFL, the sex once a week is not the END of the conversation, it's a way of BEGINNING the conversation. All of the stuff you suggest is GOOD-- revealing yourself, building up closeness, etc. They TRIED that in MC. This tactic is a way of cracking her shell, so they CAN do the stuff you're suggesting. HD doesn't want to do what you did-- namely leave-- to get her attention. This is a way of getting her attention, getting her to meet him part way, getting her to admit she gives a rat's a$$ about something that's important to him. It's a way of smoking her out of the bushes, short of him walking away.
