We ve been together since late 2019. I always felt like I was his second option (as he had a serious obsession with a girl he experienced love at first sight with in 2018 but couldn't be with her due to some faults he created and shortly after leaving her in July 2019, he started talking to me in September as he would be heading to Spain , I'm Spanish and by late 2019 we started dating) but ignored it.
After leaving her, he went back to his home town and stayed with family but he was texting me already since August as he was going to move to Spain so he indeed had no time and by Feb 2020 he had already sent our couple selfies to everyone.
We decided to do a PhD and I planned to return to the UK to do my PhD there. He on the other hand didn't agree and was applying to US institutions, finally deciding to go to New York for his PhD.
I told him that LDR during PhD will be tough but he didn't agree and left for New York. My boyfriend doesn't want to teach and is more involved in Palestine protest ands spends a lot of time doing that when not studying. So he didn't need to go to the US to do these things
Why would he do this did he even care?