I sure hope he is seeing a psychiatrist and an psychologist, he sounds like he had/has deep depression (and hope his meds where changed when he was suicidal) This is a long long road, before he is the loving H you want him to be, my H was horribly depressed for months, even when he came back, and only therapy and a new job pulled him out of it. You are so luck he reasures you and that he loves you at this point, when my H came back I got no reasurances (he had an A) and he pretty much told me he didn't have much feelings for me.
I give him credit for trying to sever his contat w/the ow. Are you guys going to a C? it really helped my H, we'd together and when he had an appt by himself he'd come home and hugged me. It took several months for out R to shape up, we both were ver aprehensive.
Please please get the book "Talking to Depression: Simple Ways To Connect When Someone In Your Life Is Depressed" by Claudia J. Strauss and Martha Manning.
He needs your acceptance right now, and like my H right now he prob feels worthless. I know you are hurting, but you need to be even stronger now, depression is such an ugly thing. My H was like a zombie for a while, months later he gradually changed, and I have my sweet H back. It takes a lot of patience to work through a sitch like this, it will be ok.
Be not afraid...I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten Joel2
30something 2kids survivor of S, MLC, A, D I have peace in my heart, at last.