He made a big deal out of the date believing that he was excited to see you.

He canceled the date when he realized that he was incapable of going through with it.

Since guys are far less likely to cancel on a date with a woman than vice versa, when it does happen, it’s usually based on his emotional availability.

Guys aren’t good at confronting and resolving their emotions when they are in a relationship with a girl and go through a breakup.

Rather than working on what he is feeling, he pushes it away and represses it.

This gives him the false impression that he is ready to get out there and court new women.

He gets out there and meets you at a bar, nightclub, bookstore, gym, etc.

The conversation is great.

Contact information is exchanged and the next few days and weeks are filled with laughter and fun as you get to know each other.

A warm rapport is established and you are thinking about whether he is going to ask you out in the foreseeable future.

He does, and you are elated.

It feels right.

The conversations with him have been intriguing and there has never been a dull moment in any of them.

It does feel like you have connected with him and that a romantic chemistry has been brewing over those few weeks.

The elation you felt when he asked you out wasn’t strictly about the date itself.

It was doubly a result of how relieved you were that the last few weeks of great conversation with him were having the same effect on him.

You weren’t the only one who was thinking about how much fun it would be to go out with him, he was thinking the same thing about you.

With all of this excitement, the ensuing cancelation of the date was like a dagger to the heart.

He had made it seem like he was so excited to see you after weeks of getting to know you over the phone.

He had made it such a big deal.

Then, out of nowhere, he cancels the date, leaving you perplexed as to why this happened.

Sadly, this is a guy that has not resolved the emotional repercussions suffered from his previous relationship.

Being that he was repressing them, he falsely led himself to believe that he was over his ex.

For a while, it worked.

As he was talking to you over these last few weeks, he actually wasn’t thinking about her as much.

Not as much as he was in the immediate aftermath of the breakup.

Alas, this didn’t last.

Repressed emotions inevitably roar to the surface.

And that is what happened to him.

It was unexpected.

He didn’t go to bed that night thinking he would wake up in tears or demoralized.

But he did.

It hit him, and hit him hard.

Those repressed emotions surged to the front of his consciousness and he didn’t have the power to hold them back any longer.

Once this rush of emotion occurred, he knew that he was in no place to go out on a date with a new woman.

This is when he canceled on you.