<human>: I'm going to skip the polite intro and get into this. I've made a shitshow of my personal life. 

At 28, my dating history is regretable to say the least; and the last failed relationship is making me wonder if I'll ever make a meaningful connection with someone, or if I'm too clueless for a successful intimate relationship. 

I was seeing this guy (also 28) for a little over a year. We started dating casually, nothing too high pressure, but our relationship was growing by the day.

 
We spent a lot of time together, talked about anything and everything, met each other's friends and family, hang out with them, got along, etc. We never talked about officially calling it an exclusive relationship but it was implied it was, as we both made it clear to each other we weren't sleeping with anyone else, and it would be a deal breaker if we did.

And then one day, after a tense week, we have a conversation during which he pretty much says he's not ready to move to the next phase, that of a committed, bf-gf relationship...but he wants to stay the way we are.

Naturally, this left me utterly confused, as we are doing everything and more people in such relationships do, but also because he seemed eager to do those things, I wasn't tricking him into them.

I told him I need some time apart to think things through and figure out what to do next as this has left me confused. 
I guess my question is, is there anything I can do to make this work? Or should I cut my losses and move on, still utterly confused at what happened?

Thank you in advance for your time.

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<bot>: After a year of dating someone, and being sexually exclusive for half of it, he's now saying he's not ready for a committed relationship.