Long distance relationship or friendship?

So I met this guy online near September 2018 and we've been texting most days since then. We've called a couple times on Skype but it's difficult for us because he's french and I'm English. He knows some English which is useful. Sometimes he will teach me computing skills over a Skype call, sometimes he'll ask me to show him some of my drawings which I work on, and sometimes we just talk about whatever. He says he's not afraid to tell me anything because we both have a great deal of respect for one another.

At around January this year, we started admitting our feelings for each other. He says meeting me has definitely improved his troubles with depression. He had a girlfriend before he met me and still gets upset about it, which I do understand. He also tells me he loves me and how beautiful he thinks I am but hates it when I say it back to him. And sometimes I'll write a cute little goodnight for him to wake up to, and he'll just straight up tell me to stop saying that sorta stuff. Do you think he actually likes me?