If you brought up living together then it is something that is important to you or you woukdn't have said anything & just waited for him to make that move if or when he was ever ready. For you to turn around & say ah forget it, I didnt mean what I said is contradictory ( saying what you REALLY dont believe or feel in your heart) & he knows it.

If you brought itbup, it is important to you. Tolerating a relationship that will never have a real committment on his part....IS that something you REALLY want to tolerate for the rest of your life just to have a nice person who won't commit responsibility to you. Yes, you say this while you are hurting but if you did get back together, would YOU REALLY be satisfied with a relstionship with a guy who just wouldn't be totally committed to you which in REALITY is the TRUE SIGN that someone really LOVES you.

If it was so easy forbhim to just walk away like that, I question his true love for you on the first place & the fact that it seems his FEAR of committing to you is much stronger than his LOVE for you.

Is this REALLY what you want for your life or just something you think you want to tolerate because you are emitionally hurting right now.

Honesrly he may know you better than you know yourself when it comes to this.

Im sorry you have been hurt this way. Maybe it would help to be totally honest with yoyrself about your future needs & desires in your life. You may realize that he is right & this is an irreconcileably difference unless you tolerate it with an unrealustic hope that someday he "WILL CHANGE".