Ruby
Things don't tend to really work like that. Sometimes it gets better, others worse again and it all gets kinda crazy.
You gotta wait. And you stop trying to make it right for him. He doesn't trust you because you told him exactly what he wanted to hear. You keep trying to make things better with him, he's just going to assume more of the same. If you want to actually make people believe you, then you've got to be genuine. And that includes doing things not because you want to score points with them, but because they're the right things to do. Buffy doesn't know, and will never know some of the things I've done for redemption, because I do them for me, not for her.