I have literally gone through SO many ups & downs this month. I had just gotten out of a 4 year relationship when one of my best guy friends came home for a week from the military. I always hang out with him when he’s home but this time things went to the next level and I slept with him. The next day he had to go back and we had been talking and ft nonstop. He even sent me gorgeous flowers on Valentine’s Day. He would tell me every single day that I shouldn’t be scared, because I was so nervous about hopping into a relationship with him. He would flirt with me all day, tell me his family would ask about me, talk about our future & even gotten naughty on ft. A few days ago, he started to get a little short with me so I knew something was up. He ended up telling me that he just doesn’t think that this will work out and that he doesn’t think he is ready for a committed relationship, let alone a LDR. He told me that he just thinks that he should focus on work, school, and his religion. He than told me that he is planning on waiting to have sex till marriage...& I was like wait WHAT. He told me he planned this about a year ago but when he came back home he obviously lost it for a while, but now he wants to be on the right track. He said he doesn’t regret hooking up with me because he obviously enjoyed it but he regrets that he didn’t stick to his morals. I told him I want to continue being good friends and he told me he agrees because that’s very important to him. I started to get worried that maybe we won’t remain good friends because of this but he promised and he said that we’ll still hang out whenever he’s back home. All in all, he said it was just bad timing & that if things are meant to be it will be...meaning maybe something will happen in the future once he’s out of the military in 3 years but obviously the both of us can’t allow ourselves to wait that long. I know he’s not talking to other girls atm so that’s not why he changed his mind just like that...i honestly believe he’s telling the truth. It just hurts a lot because I actually felt like I was getting somewhere recently. Now I’m just worried that we might not remain good friends & that I won’t see him when he comes home. Am I just overthinking this? Also, I hope fate does work out in the end because this man made me feel like I deserved the world. How do I move on from this & how do I continue to talk to him as friends without being overly annoying but not losing contact with him? Help.