First Time Experience with Aries Man

I will get straight to the point, i am a leo woman, met an aries man 8 months ago, things were really great and got serious rather quickly, i fell in love he said he loved me, wanted me to move in, wanted to get married, 5 months into the relationship we ran into a stumbling block as i called it he said he needed time, we didn't talk for about a month then he said he wanted to be friends, i tried that but i couldn't do it so i told him that i couldn't be his friend because i was in love with him and going from being on a level of almost living together and being married i couldn't just be his friend and after a long talk we decided to take it slow get to know the ends and outs of each other, things were good for a while but then i started noticing him become somewhat distant, things weren't as they were, i felt like he was using his job as well as other things as an excuse for me not to ask to see him, whenever i did see him he wasn't as affectionate and he kept his phone face down at all times and on silent.. i planned a trip for us (paid for everything)and he was all excited about going but as it got closer to the time he started coming up with excuses, i ended up going alone, after i got back we talked and it had been two weeks after my return and i hadn't seen him only talking.. he would come up with excuses before hand if he thought i was going to ask to see him,he was either so busy or really stressed with work, finally i came to the end and i confronted him with how i was feeling and i asked him to be honest with me, i told him if he had found someone else that he was interested in please tell me so i can move on, i didn't want either of us to waste each other's time, i could tell he got irritated and so had i, i told him i just needed to know what was going on.. he waited a full 8 hrs to call and tell me yet again he needed time to get his head straight, he said he truly loved me and wanted to be with me but he couldn't explain to me what was going on with him, in my heart i felt as though there could be someone else but i couldn't get him to admit it to me, there were so many signs... he shut down on me again and we haven't communicated with each other except for a text i sent him a couple of days after saying, "i love you" he texted back that he loved me too.. after a week or so i asked him was it really over with us, is this what he wanted for me to let him go and cut all communication but no response, for about another week or so i went with n

no response to anything i said or asked, my question is this, does this man really love me/ or did he really love me in the beginning, because i believe when two people really love each other you work through it, anything worth having is worth fighting for, will this man come back to me or should i just let it go...

Let it go