There are deep-rooted issues he has with emotional attachment.

He didn’t learn what it was like to develop strong emotional bonds with people as he was growing up.

This has resulted in him being avoidant as an adult.

He deliberately eschews opening himself up emotionally and developing strong emotional bonds with people.

Although you like him, avoid thinking that your love and affection for him should be enough to get him to want emotional attachment.

You mislead yourself into believing that you can get him out of this mindset and make him comfortable with the idea of emotional bonding.

Considering that his avoidant attachment issues stem from his past and are deep-rooted, you aren’t capable of singlehandedly lifting him out of it.

He is comfortable with who he has become.

No amount of love and affection from you will be enough to get him to become more of an emotionally expressive and affectionate person.

That is the sad truth about the guy you like.

He can only be saved from this behavior if he is ready to do the work.

Sadly, a person like this is too comfortable with who they are to want to make a change.

Although he craves physical intimacy, he doesn’t crave emotional intimacy.

He has physical needs that he wants met, but he doesn’t have the capacity to go beyond that.

The sad thing is that a guy like this can trick you into believing that he has overcome his avoidant attachment issues by pretending to be affectionate and loving.

Notwithstanding, it is a ruse.

He is only doing it to get you to keep giving him what he wants physically.

In the process, you end up developing feelings for him, which causes you to become emotionally attached.

The next thing you know, you are doing everything in your power to get him to become more emotionally open.

It’s all for naught.

Knowing that you are emotionally invested in him, he lets his avoidant attachment persona out once again in all its glory.

He doesn’t believe he has to keep pretending because he now has you on a hook.

Right now, you have already determined that he has avoidant attachment issues, which means you should let him go.

Avoid thinking that you have the ability to change him.

You don’t.

Remember, he has been like this since his childhood.

His avoidant attachment issues are deeply ingrained in who he is as a person.

Essentially a part of his DNA.

He is the only one who can change this, and doing so would require time and hard work.

Unfortunately, he could care less about changing.

He already knows that he is capable of getting the person he wants and physical intimacy without having to make any changes to his persona.

You aren’t the first girl who has attempted to change him in this area.

All of the girls who have liked him in the past failed in making him emotionally astute.

In staying, the same fate awaits you.