He pulled back after a fight then ghosted

Hi ladies.

I hope I can get some guidance from the lovely ladies and lads of this forum.

I’ve been dating an older man (I’m 31 and he’s 47) for 2 months now so fairly new but we’ve progressed pretty quickly and honestly this was the most romantic man I’ve come across. He gifted me a silver coin (he trades) and flowers on our first date and has been very thoughtful and has communicated his intention and where he wants us to go literally every single day. We’ve communicated and talked and texted every day, he initiated all of the contacts and I happily and cheerfully always responded. He’s expressed he deeply cares for me and appreciates me in his life. It was lovely reading his long thoughtful messages every day.

So here’s where things have changed. He was in my area and knew I liked Thai food so he called to see if I’d like some. I said sure, I asked him to call me so I can place an order since I wasn’t sure if he was busy or not. He didn’t like i didn’t say please (an inside joke he makes is I’m bossy when I don’t say please) to which I didn’t think much of it as I thought he was joking. I was working so I ignored it and he messaged me saying I have 10 mins to ask him to call me nicely or he will pick whatever order. I just laughed it off and said okay I don’t want your food. This was a joke. He goes ahead and orders something I normally wouldn’t eat, he’s into health food so he ordered the most healthiest option. Long story short I didn’t like the order so I threw it in the bin, he didn’t like hearing this after he’d asked how the food was and I told him I threw it away, citing a fake excuse of he placed the food on the floor next to his car and I don’t like food that’s touched the floor, even though it was inside 2 plastic bags and containers. Anyway he ended that call abruptly and sent a message saying he was hurt by what I did and that I should donate money to homeless people and that I should take him to a romantic dinner to rectify this.

I apologised to him and told him I’ll donate as it’s food wastage etc but I ignored his message about taking him out for 2-3 days. He never reached out, he always reached out. So after 2-3 days I reached out just saying hello. Which he responded warmly but not his old bubbly self. I left it alone. Then messaged him a day later and asked how he was and I felt distant from him which he acknowledged and he told me he had covid and this is why he pulled back plus the issue previously but will tackle the issue once he feels better and ready to talk about it, he ended the convo by saying let’s talk tomorrow. I didn’t push it and told him that’s cool. He then reached out next day and carried on the conversation like nothing happened and was back to his old self. I felt weird because he said he was feeling better but not bringing anything up so I pulled back and pretended to be busy when he wanted to text back and forth. I then reached out before I slept saying “heya” and he never responded to this, it’s been 3 days.

I also wanted to add he told me regardless of what the outcome of our getting to know was he would teach me how to trade and start my own business but I never pushed this when we were dating because I didn’t want him to think I was using him for that but now I’m really regretting not persisting him to teach me.

Please advise what your thoughts on the nicest possible way as I’m in an emotional space at the moment with my menstruation and anxiety etc.