Rant #2135

so i have this online friend that i've known for almost three years now. he's absolutely amazing and i genuinely think we're such good friends. in the beginning, we used to talk pretty regularly. then he kind of disappeared for a year. he came back this year and we were talking pretty consistently again, although he does sometimes disappear for a few weeks at a time. he's not suicidal or anything, he just says he gets caught up doing other stuff. anyway, a month or two back he asks me if i've been in relationships before or if i'm interested in being in one (not with him, just in general). i tell him that rn i'm happily single and he agrees, saying that he likes being single. he disappears for a month and when he comes back, i learn that he went to a whole other country and apparently has a long-distance girlfriend now? i genuinely want to be happy for him. ik i couldn't and wouldn't date him but i do feel sort of betrayed. i've barely seen him since. i just don't want things to change