I would also find that sentence: "the love we feel for each other is very different" difficult. It seems to state to me that he thinks he knows what your love is, I wonder what he thinks it is, that he’s thinks it’s so different to the love that he has? He may well be right, that the love is different? But perhaps this isn’t a helpful response. If it was a different subject, perhaps he would spend more time seeking to understand what it means to you, what your experience of it is. Perhaps his statement is defensive and protective? Like you say, there may be different ways of interpreting his phrase.