Is he doing this on purpose?

My BF broke up with me but we were best friends beforehand. He still wants to stay friends but keeps talking about how angry he is about what happened between us ? He talks about how not being with me stresses him out and hurts him really bad. How heartbroken he is about how things happened. Yet he’s the one that broke up with me. What happened between us could have easily been ironed out however he decided he was done with the whole thing. Now he keeps making comments about being single forever. Everything is weighing down on him in his life and he says he needs to work on himself. I want us to be together and he says a part of him does to but he doesn’t want to get played. It’s weird because We still do EVERYTHING together but he keeps making comments like this when the only thing we have to do is work towards what we BOTH want and he stop being so stubborn. I’m not sure why he keeps doing this ?