Such an interesting read! Some basic themes are:

  1. Letting him have time to himself.

  2. Initiating more affection

  3. Giving more appreciation for the things he does

But the top comment (which was actually a wife who had asked her non-redditor husband what his answer was) said that when they were first married, she used to make this layer cake every week and leave it in the counter in a glass display case. He said that he missed that cake from a deep part of his soul.