I'm feeling like his responses are a bit condescending... maybe it's just the way I'm reading them.... but "waiting for you to come around" sounds a lot like, "I'm right, you are wrong, why can't you see that?"
I think he may have hit the nail on the head: "It has always been this way with anyone I date... it's just a part of me ever since i was a kid. I was happiest in my room playing with my toys alone. Now as an adult it's sitting and having a whiskey by myself and browsing the net in silence." I'm not sure he wants a real long term releationship. I don't like saying it, but that's what I am seeing, at least to a degree. He doesn't mind having someone around, when he wants them around. But he doesn't seem to really want a partner. I'm not saying you should do everything together, we know that really doesn't work. But there are least has to be a bit of understanding and communication.
Anyway, I think that's why he's bailing, and probably why he is single. He, for whatever reason, doesn't want a real relationship. Not just with you, but with anyone.
