Well...I met my guy over the internet I'd been chatting to him for a couple of years but not really seriously until I split up with my ex because I was online more then.

When we first started talking we'd talk all day-or as much as we could in a day online and I'd often end up staying really late to talk to him. This was unusual for me, but as I said I was just online more at the time.

I should mention here that we live about four hours apart, possibly more but this wasn't really an issue for me-we had formed a healthy relationship as far as I was concerned and that was what I needed.

He actually first told me he loved me before we met up, though he was rather drunk at the time

Stop!  You can't fall in love with someone you haven't met, that's just impossible.  It's making love sound cheap and easy.

and although I didn't feel I felt quite as strongly as he seemed to at the time, I did eventually fall for him when we met

Anyway, he came to stay with me for a few days and everything went perfectly though he did get annoyed at me a couple of times because I wanted to stay in bed and he wanted to go out and have a cigarette (in retrospect I'm not even really sure why this was an issue)

Neither am I, give the dirty habit up.  No, seriously he probably wasn't being that serious.  A guy doesn't really get that annoyed about this sort of thing, he may try and persuade you to go outside and sound annoyed but really this is not going to seriously annoy him, unless he has a mental problem.

Anyway...after he went we carried on talking as usual but then when I went back to uni I wasn't on the internet as much because I had lots of work etc to do (I did warn him in advance that would be the case). It wasn't that I didn't feel as much for him, it just wasn't really me to sit on the internet the whole time and I couldn't do my work on the computer either.

This probably made him think you were trying to fob him off.  After all, he'd be thinking what does she find more important me or Uni, Ohh Uni, well I'll give her a chance but if she's less than interested in me, I'm going to get bored and move on.

He was always online though-I just thought that was normal for him but now I think about it it may have been that he was waiting for me which makes me feel awful.

Yep, guys often wait for a woman to initiate contact online.  The number of times I've gone online and wanted a woman to contact me, but then I think, she's probably chatting to someone else or may not want to talk to me, or I don't know what to say to start the conversation.  So then I end up waiting for her to make contact.  And then she doesn't make contact and I'm thinking I must have done something wrong or she doesn't like me, so I'd better not contact her, better leave her.  Guys are just as insecure as women, they just never dare admit it.

Everytime I came online as well, if he was supposed to be going out or was dragged out at the last minute he would always apologise to me and say he wanted to stay and talk to me and once came back saying he felt really guilty for going out when I hadn't minded at all.

Well, yes as if you are in a relationship and even if you were in a relationship, does that really mean he can't go out.

Anyway...one night I came on the internet quite late because I'd been with some friends who I hadn't seen for a while (I'd fore-warned him) and he was in a really bad mood which wasn't like him at all.

He'll be worried you got off with someone or drank too much.  Guys worry about those sort of things, because they want to protect their women.  Really, they should trust their woman, to go out and not end up shagging some other bloke or getting into trouble, but when alcohol is involved anything can happen.

We ended up on the subject of politics which he didn't want to talk about (again unusual for him). I ended up on the phone to him and he started telling me how our political differences were to great and that he could just see things getting worse especially if we ended up living together (this wouldn't be for another 2-4 years because of uni-I wasn't even thinking that far ahead!)

He would have been imagining what it was like living together, from the point of view of assessing your future prospects as a long term relationship.  It's part of his decision whether he continues with you or whether he quits the relationship, he needs some reasons to quit though and he's start to think of excuses here.  Though I don't think he came up with a valid one, what's politics got to do with a relationship.  He's just trying to pluck an excuse out of the air.

I ended up getting upset and asked if he wanted to split up with me...he seemed unsure at first but I said I'd rather know and after that he was absolutely adamant about it and wouldn't even talk it over with me.

He was unsure, that's why he didn't really have a valid reason, he just came up with a stupid one, like politics.  But guys don't particularly want to talk it over with a woman once they split up.  Guys know they are just going to end up with one very big headache if they do discuss it or else she'll try and convince him to continue.  If he doesn't want to continue his decisions made and he doesn't really want to discuss the reasons, in some cases the only valid reason is that he doesn't see it lasting because you are not his dream woman.

He was due to come and see me a couple of weeks later and had booked tickets etc. but when I suggested he come and see me he refused point blank even though he'd already spent the money.

His decision was made, if a guy is willing to lose money over it, then that's pretty much a dead end.

He said he really did want to stay friends with me and we are still talking which is good. He also said he would like to come and visit me again but it wouldn't be a while. I've spoken to him about it since-we had booked to go to a festival together and I wanted to see him on his own before then so it wouldn't be awkward when we were both with our friends.

 He says he'll try but he's not sure (if he really wanted to see me he'd book it right?)

Yes, if he was really interested in you, he wouldn't be going through all this.  He wants to keep you sweet, just in case he's lonely in a few months and changes his mind, but really he doesn't like you enough to be that bothered. 

and that he's not sure it's a good idea if we see each other too soon. I'm not sure whether he thinks he's doing it for my good or whether there's another reason.

He doesn't think you have long term prospects as simple as that.  You gave him too much time to think about, by saying you were busy at Uni and indicating to him you weren't that interested in him as a result.  As soon as you do that to a guy, he gets bored and wants to move on.  A guy wants a woman who is dedicated to him and interested in him, not someone who would rather do her Uni work.  And the long distance was probably an important part of the decision too.

We have spoken since and it transpired that the week before we split up he had started to lose his feelings for me and it stressed him out and then he said because of that the differences between us seemed to mean more and that stressed him out more.

I'm just not really sure what went wrong because everything was fine until we split up-he says he'd begun to act differently but I really didn't think so...is it possible he still has feelings for me and he just felt it wasn't working for him or is there something else?

It's the long distance, it's the lack of time together, the lack of communication and just generally a feeling that things are not going to work out between you long term.  He had times to think of those ideas and maybe if you'd seen more of each other, you would have had time to grow close and persuade him otherwise. 

Sorry just can't really fathom this one out and I'm not really sure what to do-I still have all these feelings for him but I can't tell him because I don't want to ruin our friendship-if I tell him I'm finding it difficult he just says "you'll get over me".

Once a guy has made his mind up like this, it's usually impossible to convince him otherwise.  Yes, he might try and make a go of the relationship again, but it's very unlikely to work out.  It didn't work out the first time and the first time is the most memorable time.  My recommendation is to move on, if he's really bothered then he will then become keen again.

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