Why do people do this?

I haven’t gone out in the dating world in a while. This was my first time stepping back out there and I was nervous as hell meeting him in person. We matched on bumble and chatted for a week-ish before meeting… it was literally perfect. We wouldn’t stop texting each other.

Fast forward to date #1, it was more than what we thought it could be. We clicked so well and he gave every single sign that he was into me. He straight up told me he wanted to introduce me to his friends one day and was gushing about how his heart kept racing all fast… we kissed and made out and it was just sparks and all. He even said so too. That night was just perfect.

We went on date #2 and that was even more perfect. Cooked me dinner and everything. Opened up about our past. It was just great.

Then last week he just starts texting less and being distant out of nowhere. I knew something was off. So I asked him and he said everything was fine. But yesterday he was MIA and I officially knew that something was not right. So I asked him to just give it to me straight and he responded with how he has a lot going on mentally and that he just wanted to shut things off and how it’s not fair to me. That he should’ve told me? And that his apprehension got the better of him with other drama in his life and he felt overwhelm.

I’m just sick to my stomach. I opened up to this guy… granted so did he. But I thought this was going to lead to something. Thankfully I didn’t have sex with him. When you think everything is going amazing just remember to not get too excited I guess.