why did he ghost me when things were going great

We talked every day for almost two months.

He sent me photos of what he was doing. Random things—his lunch, a street he was walking down. He told me I was amazing. He said it more than once.

Our dates lasted twelve hours sometimes. We'd start with coffee and end up at dinner, then back at one of our places, talking until we realized how late it was.

He helped me mount my television. He met my friends. I met his.

We slept together.

He made jokes about my mother being his future mother-in-law. He asked when he might meet her. The way he talked made it sound like we were building toward something.

We both said we were looking for a relationship when we matched. Everything he did seemed to confirm it.

Except we lived fifteen minutes apart and once we didn't see each other for two weeks.

On our last date, I told him I didn't want two-week gaps between seeing each other while we were dating. That was it. Not a demand. Just that I wanted to see him more regularly.

He didn't get defensive. He said that spacing felt normal to him, but he didn't want me to feel bad.

We hugged. He slept over. We had breakfast together the next morning.

A few days later, something changed.

His messages felt different. Shorter. Less frequent.

I asked him directly: did the conversation about seeing each other more often make him uncomfortable?

He said he'd been thinking about it. He said we'd talk properly later.

I said okay. I asked him to let me know.

He read it.

Then he liked one of my Instagram stories.

Then nothing.

He stopped texting. He stopped calling. He was still online—I could see that—but he wasn't responding to me.

After two months of daily contact. After meeting each other's friends. After sleeping together. After talking about the future like it was something we were both walking toward.

I wasn't asking for something unreasonable. I was asking to see someone I was dating more than once every two weeks.

And maybe he decided he didn't want that. Maybe he realized he wasn't as interested as he thought. Maybe the relationship I thought we were building wasn't the same one he saw.

But after everything—after the twelve-hour dates and the future jokes and telling me I was amazing—he couldn't send one message to end it.

He just disappeared.

I keep going back to that morning after our last date. Breakfast together. Everything felt fine.

I don't know if asking for more made him pull away, or if he was already pulling away and my asking just gave him a reason to vanish.

I don't know why someone who acted like an invested partner would ghost instead of having one honest conversation.

I just know that two months of daily communication ended with silence, and I'm left wondering what I said that was so wrong.