Over the past ten years he has lived in another state. We dated 10 years ago. He called me randomly every once and a while for a year after we broke up. We exchanged letters. We used to talk about me moving back to be together, but it didn't work out as I was in college.
Then he met someone and they had a child. They broke up about a year or two later and things were messy over custody. He contacted me during that time and we started talking again. He asked me to visit and I did. It was amazing.
I wanted him to ask me to move there again. But knew he wouldn't/couldn't due to the situation with custody and him being hurt by his ex.
He still calls randomly and texts that he can't stop thinking about me and he loves me. We talk and it's great! He talks marriage, regrets things not working out sooner in the past. But he still will go several days without calling. He is very busy working and talking care of his child. When we talk is is still very consistent with his feelings. Is he serious about me? Or does he just want what he can't have?