I don't think there is a pat answer to "mean anything" question but that does seem different to me than the "fake" feeling you have. I think he's afraid of losing his license so he, in his mind, has to walk away for two years and then wait for you to contact him. I think a version of this scenario has been played out in the movies, such as when Secret Agent has to leave True Love but can't tell her why or how, just has to ghost her. Of course the story is that we understand her devastation but we secretly root for her to discover the real truth and for them to get back together again. "Covert Affairs", a TV show from back some time, with Piper Perabo, starts with a romantic vacation on a foreign and isolated beach.

But the feeling that your relationship was "fake," I guess I come to it, like everyone else, with experience from the human side of it rather than the T side of it. I don't really think it's possible to fake the kind of connection you have. It is possible for someone to use that connection to get something out of you, i.e. a con artist, but it does not seem like he had any motive then or now to do so. Does that mean he cared about you in the specific way you wanted him to? I don't know. Maybe the caring was fake, but the connection wasn't.

So a few years ago I developed a friendship with a con artist; she showed up at a hospital with mysterious injuries and a chronic, potentially lethal illness and I was asked to volunteer to help her with her Big Legal Problems. She was one of those people who inspired a number of us helping professionals to pull out all the resources for her. It was right after my spouse's death and she was highly intelligent, well read, and just the best conversationalist, able to talk about everything from big scientific ideas I could barely understand and personal experiences that she may or may not have had. I never revealed anything deeply personal from my past with the exception of my spouse's death and the challenges of my work and single parenting, so it wasn't a complete friendship but it was way beyond just a caretaking relationship. I helped move her from place to place as she found people to stay with and then who grew tired of her over-staying, there were times when she needed things and was bumping up against barriers in the system designed to help her, and I would just buy the things for her. Mostly I just gave her my time, as she needed lots of support, long after I'd collected the information I needed to help her legally but she was never ready to move forward with that (and I was volunteering, not expecting payment). This went on for more than 2 years.

Then something happened where some of her other caretakers, more suspicious people than me (or smarter), contacted me and we collectively realized she was manipulating stories to engage people to help her. The fact that there were others helping her in different ways encouraged me, and so was true for them. Although I'd been suspicious for awhile, because of some inconsistencies in what she said, I believed she was truly in need of help and I still believe she was, she needed everything a homeless person truly needed but wasn't in need of legal assistance. I believe I would have been willing to help her no matter what, even if the true story was that she was just homeless with all the problems that entails.

In my typical longwinded storytelling, the point of revealing all this is so you can understand how real my connection was to her. And it had nothing to do with the fact that we had this supposedly professional role (and unlike T's, lawyers are not prohibited from personal or social relationships with current or former clients-- not sexual relationships though, at least in my state); my connection to her was just human. We could talk in ways and enjoyed each other's company and found many points of similar experiences in different parts of the world, and of course the backstory she told about how she came to be homeless was fascinating (and that last part was all bull, I'm not sure how many other things she told me about herself were true).

But no matter was the truth was of what she actually said to me, the connection was real. Beyond the connection, I felt that she truly cared for me, wanted the best for me, hoped that my struggles would get easier and I would find peace from the big grief of my life. Did she pursue the relationship with me for what I could materially give her? Maybe, although I really didn't give her much, and never money. Was I just a "mark" to her and she was hoping I'd sign over my bank account eventually? Who knows. Could she have cared for me and still gone after me as a mark? Probably. The only thing I know for sure, and that I still feel even knowing what big lies she told me and doubting that anything she said about herself was true, that the connection I felt while talking to her was real. I don't think connection can be faked. People can use connection for their ulterior motives, which I think was true for her. But that's where I think my story differs from yours.

Edited to add: I just wanted to say that I think your posting about this is courageous and I like how you are straight about what you do and do not want in responses-- it seems like this has been hard for you to talk about but I feel like your persistence in trying for some resolution is leading you someplace important. The issues you are raising are big and important ones, and I hope you will find the support you need here.