I feel like he stopped loving me...?

This is a hard question to answer "right." This has to do with the fact that the only one who really has the "answer" is your boyfriend. I say this because if it is true that the same thing existed in his past relationships, the only common denominator is he. This does not mean to say that he is the problem either: there could be a hundred legitimate or irrational reasons that the relationship is hitting a bumpy spot in the road.

Bumpy spots in relationships happen. They are actually signs of healthy progress. Of course if the relationship is more rocky than not, or if the rocky times involve any sort of physical or emotional abuse, this is a bad sign. From what I have seen and experienced myself, the sort of distancing that your boyfriend is exhibiting is anxiety from becoming serious. You have mentioned that it took him a while to even ask you out. Though he may have a confident exterior, every guy gets nervous when he feels like he is opening himself up to be potentially wounded very deeply. Guys are generally interested in a relationship for superficial reasons at first and slowly work towards a deeper, emotionally intimate bond later. Girls are generally interested in a deep emotional bond first and develop other areas of the relationship later. You have already made this deep emotional bond with him; he could be going through "growing pains" as he is adapting to the idea of becoming involved on a deeply emotional level.

The only thing you really can do is what you are already doing: still offering him your love and understanding as he adapts. If he cannot make the adjustments and deal with whatever it is deep down that is causing him to pull away, this is his problem and not yours. You should not feel personally slighted if he needs to mature or grow up a little. Even the best couples that are in the strongest relationships would not work if they happened at the wrong time. If I remember correctly, are you not both under the age of twenty? You may feel and actually be ready for an adult relationship yourself, but it takes guys a bit longer. I do not think that we really realize that we have emotions (really!) until AT LEAST early twenties. Before that, we think we do, but all they really are to us are just confusing things that we cannot define. It scares us too that we cannot control them, apparently.

If I had to place bets on what is going on in his brain, I would put money on it being a simple issue that he has a lot to sort out emotionally but has no clue where to begin. You will help him tremendously by giving him a wide berth so that he can feel that he is successful in coming up with the solution and fixing it himself. He is caught in a weird time of life when he still would love Mommy to come patch up his psyche every time his emotions skin their knees, but he desperately wants to show himself and the world that he is a man and can handle it himself. Maybe some of his previous relationships did not get past this hurdle because he never felt like his girlfriend had enough faith and confidence in him to be able to suss out and solve his own issues. If you have given him all of the patient support and love you know how and he still has issues, he might just need to grow up.

What I would not do is make him feel nagged about his development. You do not need to pretend like everything is okay if it is not, but if you have talked about it, he knows he knows and he knows that you know. If you push the issue, you might give him the unintended message that you do not think his is capable of handling it. This is relationship suicide. Treat him like an emotional man even if he is throwing a childish emotional tantrum and he will come up to that level.

he wants to love you, he really does. fact of the matter is that neither of you have any kind of control over his emotions. im sorry but it looks like the end if inevitable. i remember i didnt leave when i felt like that, and over the next year things got really bad. leaving is going to hurt, so will being left. but if you stay too long when its not working, you run the risk of ruining things forever. if it were me, i would call for a break. good luck when he visits you, i hope things work out for the best

I STILL LOVE YOU I DO> PLEASE YOUR ALL I DREAMED OF BABY :)