My ex and I have been through a lot. He claims he wants a future with me and still sees us getting back together, but not right now. He also claims that he still loves me very much, that I am always on his mind, and that he regrets breaking up with me. I believe every word of it because he isn’t one to throw words like that out there. He is able to cut people off in a heartbeat, but he always finds away to contact me. It is like neither one of us could let go, until now.
I ended up catching him in a lie which led to the fact that he explained to me that no one thinks he likes me. So he is keeping the fact that he cares for me on the DL. After he asked me to talk to him later, I reached out and he acted like losing me was nothing. He wasn’t being cold hearted. He was just like “I already know you care” “I think we both need to move on for right now but then get back together later” etc. He never apologized once for everything he put me through, and just like of made a joke out of it after the fact. I know he runs away from problems and he admitted to it.
So my question is (not so much involving my situation because I want to know more about this) how do guys act after a break up and why do they act that way? Why do people walk out when they still love someone?