Long distance lover still depressed over his divorce.
I met a lovely guy about 6 months ago who was visiting my city for a weekend with pals (he lives 200 miles away)and ended up spending the night with him. He is 8 years older than me. Im 27 he is 35. This is the first time Ive ever had what I presumed at the time to be a one night stand after a 5 year live in relationship with my ex finished badly in February last year. However, me and this man have been in contact every day since either by text message or phone call ussually with him instigating the contact since it happened and over the past 6 months he has been to visit for 7 separate weekends. We have really got to know each other mostly by phone and have become very close. We text up to 30 times every day. When he is here he is lovely and treats me like a princess for the first day but after that he gets a little twitchy. He is also recently out of a serious relationship. His divorce was finalised in July and has two teenage children. The problem is he has a tendency to get angry with me over silly things for example we have always been totally honest with each other and have been able to confide about our pain over our respective splits. Lately, although I have listened to him and advised him for hours over his ex wife and children and xmas and all its associated loneliness if I even mention my upset at spending first xmas alone without my ex he will sever contact with me for days or withhold kisses on text messages which he knows really winds me up. My ex does tend to have a tendency to find out when he has been to see me as we have a lot of mutual friends but he wouldn't cause any trouble and is happy that I have moved on. Its like there is one rule for him and another for me. Another example is that I had way too much to drink at a party a while ago and ended up walking home alone at 4am, not sensible I know, I told him and he went mental then didn't speak to or text me for over a week. There have been about 5 or 6 occasions that he has done this and afterwards he apologises and says its because he cares.
He came to visit me on boxing day as a surprise and intended to stay for 3 nights. The first night was fine we went out and had a lovely time, the next day we went for a nice walk and some lunch but he refused alcohol which was strange as we enjoy a glass of wine with our meals ussually. When we returned to my house we had really nice loving sex and then he told me that had to go home and that he just had an uneasy feeling. He couldn't explain why and he told me to have some patience with him as he was scared of getting any closer to me because he cheated on his ex wife which was the cause of the marriage breakdown so he is scared of hurting me in the same way. He says his heart is numb but I don't think it is as I have seen a loving and caring side to him, he is very tactile and generous with hugs and kisses. He told me that he had never allowed himself to be sad over the breakup of his marriage as it was his fault and he doesn't deserve to feel sad.
We have never defined our relationship in terms of calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend and we are both totally honest about this. It has been a kind of sex buddies with feelings situation with the potential to develop into more and now Im not sure what is going on as he is blowing hot and cold. He buys me expensive gifts and sends the sweetest texts but on the other hand he tells me he is not ready for a relationship with anyone, why contact me every day if this is the case? Im not sure if he thinks Im not ready after my split or what? I really really like this guy and I am so confused. Should I hang in there until he sorts his issues out or move on?