He sounds hurt and envious and cannot control it. When he can later, he probably cannot understand how emotions could be so strong making him be irrational. Then trying to save face.

If this is a constant pattern he needs help. I hope you live somewhere where men actually "can" have issues and CAN get help.

If someone is taken over with emotion they cannot think straight. There are whole mental diagnoses based on this stuff. The bad thing isn't that he feels it, you can't help feelings by just turning them off. The bad thing would be if he didn't want any help. Unfortunately sometimes culture forbids some people to have true insight, sometimes the illness cause insight to be absent.