Defriend a Ghost?

Interesting post. I’ve enjoyed reading this as I’ve been ghosted for the past month. Been dating a guy for 3 years and 3 months whom I met on a dating site. I’ve met his family and some of his extended family. This past 6 months he has been acting strange, and his contact with me has been getting less and less, ie not coming up when he’soff work, one text at the beginningof the day and then at night time just to say goodnight. I had words with him about this. Approximately 18 months after we started dating he asked me could he make it official on Facebook, I agreed that was ok and I followed his lead so as not to offend him. I took him away for his big birthday and spent quite a bit on him, during our time away he was unaffectionate towards me and I knew in my gut he wasn’t telling me something and I told him this. I said to him that I felt we were more like pen pals these days. He said he felt he’d taken on too much (he was by now doing a part time course) between work, his course and his sisters causing strife over personal issues. He said at this point he was glad he told me and that he felt relief and that ‘I was his rock’. Things improved I thought and the I seen him the following weekend. Then came his birthday and I knew things were sliding back as he left it too late to text on Saturday night and I knew he had no intentions of coming to see me and naturally I was pissed off and kinda let him know. He was going to be off work for two weeks. I sent him wee message on Sunday afternoon as I’d felt bad but he didn’t reply to that night and with a long winded excuse about his phone being out of charge. I responded with thumbs up. Sent him a message several hours later and very early morning wishing him happy birthday. Again he didn’t come back until almost 4pm that day with a simple ‘thanks x’. Being pissed off I just put thumbs up again and didn’t message him for a full week. Casual text to him but realised immediately he blocked me. Left it a further week and sent him a funny text which was still blocked on fb messenger. By this stage I wondered why he hadn’t massaged so I sent a nice long text on different forum saying I missed him and would like to talk with him, having thought our relationship was worth trying for. Ended it by saying it was the last time I was reaching out to him and if I didn’t hear back ftom him then I wished him well going forward. He went to send me a message on fb messenger (think he then unblocked me) but deleted it immediately so I didn’t see it. Needless to say two more weeks have lapsed and I’ve had no contact. Approximately one week ago he changed his profile pic from one of us to a piece of machinery. He still has me as his friend, has blocked how much I can see of his account and still has the relationship status as being with me. He told me during our trip away that he can be moody, he has in the past not spoken to me for up to 5 days but never a month. How can I move on, I am devastated that I meant so little to him after this length of time that he could not come clean and give me an explanation.