He works part time, goes to school, has a four and a half year old son who he has three days a week and he is a volunteer little league coach, and we live about 2hours apart. When we first started talking the assumption on was he was getting ready to graduate school and start working in that field. After talking for 4 months and everything being amazing between us he got really sick and was unable to really focus on school for about a week and a half so he got behind while simultaneously finding out that's school wasn't going to be dying down but ramping up towards the end with State tests as well as presentations. He had to get all of this stuff done while taking care of his son, working and being a little league coach. So for about 2 weeks it seemed he was very distant and too busy to really talk but he still made an effort to tell me I was beautiful and try to keep contact but it was dwindling. Then two days before we were supposed to see each other he called me and said that he is very overwhelmed and has too much on his plate and those are some of his top priorities and he didn't think it was fair to me to not be able to talk to me and see me as often as he would like so he wants to take his step back from us and focus on those priorities and once those things have been taken care of he wants to get back in contact with me in a few months and hopefully rekindle things. At the same time he told me he wants me to be happy and if I happen to find somebody in that time then he would understand but he still wanted to know if he could reach back out when he had less on his plate and less stress going on. I guess my real question is was he just letting me down easy because he just wasn't interested anymore or do guys really get that overwhelmed with some of their priorities that unfortunately since I was new to his life I hadn't made it up to the top of the priority list so something had to give and unfortunately that something had to be me?
Is having too much on your plate ever an honest reason to put dating someone on hold while you handle your priorities?
