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What does it mean when he says he has love for you but he is not in love with you, And why would a guy stay in relationship if he doesn't love you?

Me and my boyfriend recently broke up after dating for 5 years. We lived together and I recently moved out. At the end of the relationship we talked it was like a final goodbye. He told me that he always had love for me but he was never in love with me. I was shocked and hurt because I thought he was in love. He would tell me that he loved me, he would do things for me, we lived together and was together for 5 years. He also cried in front of me once and opened up to me about being abused in his childhood so I thought he was in love. When I asked why he said he loved me then he said he would say it because he had love for me like my well-being. And I was a good person and he was attracted to that but he never felt in love and he found himself forcing it trying to make it happen but it just wasn't happening. When I think back on things I do see signs that maybe he wasn't in love like we never hung out with his friends together, he shoved me against the wall once when we had a bad argument, he would push me away when I tried to be affectionate, and we argued a lot. What does it mean when a man says he has love for you but he's not in love with you or he loves you but he's not in love with you. And why would a man stay in a relationship for 5 years if he was unhappy and not in love?

What does it mean when he says he has love for you but he is not in love with you, And why would a guy stay in relationship if he doesn't love you?
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