So me and my husband been together 8 years have a 3 year old. We’ve had several chats where I’ve said he feels like he doesn’t love me. He says he does but just doesn’t love me or fancy me the same as the beginning. He then broke down apologised for saying it and begged me to not leave him. He wrote me the cutest apology letter explaining how he loves me and would be lost without me and he’ll do everything to fix us. I said I need change. I need the cuddles, the kisses the appreciation. I said if I don’t get it, we won’t have another chat I’ll just leave… It’s been a week and there has been NO change, gone back to complete normal. What should I do.
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I would give him more than a week to see if things changed. But I would tell him, "I want to see changes in a month" or however long you want to give him. So that he's fully aware of the timeline.

Remind him of the ultimatum. He said he’d do anything to fix things. Tell him to prove it. Tell him you need him to treat you like the love of his life and not just some stranger roommate.

If he changed for a bit, but has gone back to how he was that note was a love bomb. If he never changed I’d bring it up.

Obviously it depends on the type of week it was & if he actually had an opportunity to truly show these things, but you told him straight up that there wouldn’t be another chat, so don’t let him make a liar out of you too. I would personally take the not trying as an indication of his true feelings, so I’d make it easy for him & just leave, like I said I would, bc to me that’s what he’s saying he wants, I mean otherwise he would’ve done “anything to keep you” just like he said. Sure he might suddenly change his mind again, I mean I’ve heard the dating pool isn’t kind to men these days & men are very emotional creatures & tend to fear loneliness the loudest, my ex actually made me a mix “tape” during his love bombing, he was 32yo, not 12, I swear.🤣
I stupidly fell for it, even though I thought it was ridiculous, got pregnant, let him move back 2m after the split, he did so so for 9m & it was over for good when our son was 2. Took him 11yrs to get another woman to stick around.