The abuse cycle is difficult to break. If it was easy to break, victims wouldn't need advocates, escape plans and in many cases, years of therapy to heal from it.

While you were making excuses for his absence, he was setting up a love bomb and it went off. When is he going to pick a fight, call you crazy, talk behind your back to his coworker, not support you? Love bombs don't last forever, and by design are supposed to make you doubt what you know. He's trying to look as much like a sheep as a wolf can to distract you because he knows it works.