Heartbroken
I met this guy via online dating and we instantly hit it off and we dated about 6 weeks. Our first date lasted over 5 hours and all our dates after that lasted 5+ hours even 10 hours. We really connected and would text all the time. However, he had some issues going on notably a very sick parent. His parent has cancer and did not get good test results recently. We hung out the weekend before and it was great but then that week after not hearing from him much I reached out and he basically said that he’s stepping back from dating anyone because he has too much going on. He sounded very overwhelmed. I told him I would wait because I really liked him but he said he didn’t have a timeline and I shouldn’t wait. When I asked if he just didn’t feel it he replied “yea I guess so” and I wished him the best of luck.
I’m absolutely heartbroken because it has been years since I felt this way about someone. I keep looking into it as how could he do a 180 with his feelings, to it’s over forever, to maybe when things calm down we can start talking again. This is very fresh and I feel raw inside and I just wanted some insight because I can only ask ChatGPT so many times. Please be gentle with your comments because I am severely hurting right now.