I need relationship advice

Ladies, i need your help.

I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 1 year & 1 month and it wasn’t until a little over a month ago that I started to see changes in our relationship, he just seemed to be drifting away and I couldn’t understand why. He always gave me clues but me sticking with my pride and my stubbornness I didn’t want to realize that what he was trying to say is that he wanted a break for our relationship. Mind you this , we never talk otp, we never fall asleep otp and neither do we text on a daily basis. There is always a 10 minute to 2 your gap between our text. If he’s not at work he’s playing ball or on the game, I understand he also needs his space so I give him all the space in the world but I’m also a human being and I have feelings, it hurts me that I have to put up with this alllllll the time and have to put up with him getting angry at me for wanting just a tad bit of attention. He has also told me that he didn’t want to worry about checking up on me all the time and how I needed to learn to keep my feelings to myself because he didn’t want me to ruin his mood or have to stop what hes doing because he has to worry about if I’m okay . Idk what to do because I lost my virginity to him, this is the man that I love and he is insisting we take a break. I know he can be such a dick and doesn’t realize that he’s hurting me by the little things he says (most of the time he sees nothing wrong in his actions), but a BIG part of me can’t let.him go , I have worked to hard in this relationship to say I give up or let him go.