After a year, ex reached out to me….Update

Hey guys,
Here’s an update on my breakup.
Recap: My ex and I dated for a year from Christmas Day 2015 to January 2017. The healing and moving on part wasn’t easy at all. I was dealing with other things as well. Let’s just say I was very depressed. I reached out to him 4 months after breakup and told him I missed him and still wanted to be with him. I didn’t beg or plead. I just expressed myself. He said he needed time so I left him alone after that.

Fast forward to December 2017, I was still trying to move on and I found out he was in a new relationship (they broke up 3 months later). Honestly I was upset but took all of this as a learning experience. For the next few months, I went on a few dates in order to move on and focused on healing.

Fast forward to late May 2018 (a year and 3 month post breakup), he reached out to me and wanted us to be friends and I was okay with that for the time being. About a month later, we went to the movies as friends. Afterwards, he confessed that he still wanted to be with me.

We talked for hours about our breakup for closure. Our relationship was good for the most part. We barely argued and we were best friends. But what went wrong towards the end were due to miscommunication, assumptions, and misunderstandings. He being distant and his dad did not like me at all. Also, he hid his Snapchat stories from me so I created a fake account to spy on him (there was nothing incriminating).

because of that I assumed that he was seeing someone else or he was no longer interested in me. Using a fake account, I asked him if he has a girlfriend and he said no (which was actually a prank). So when I broke up with him and since he didn’t stop me or said anything, I believed that’s what he wanted. But it wasn’t.

-He told me he had a lot on his mind that day we broke up, so he was caught of guard and went numb when it happened.
-When I reached out to him months later wanting to get back together, he said he needed time because he was still hurt, not because he was no longer interested like I thought.
-About the Snapchat situation, he hid it so wouldn’t see him smoking weed (which I wasn’t used to). It wasn’t because of cheating. He acknowledged that it was wrong.
-About the catfish account, he knew it was me from the start. He doesn’t know anyone by the name I used, the snap score was very low (he does streaks), and he recognized the “catfish” wrote exactly the same way I do. I write with proper grammar. When he realized it was me, he thought it would be funny by saying he doesn’t have a girlfriend just to prank me (we would always prank each other). He didn’t realize it prompt me to break up with him.
-But anyway he was distant because he was very stressed with a lot and didn’t have time for anything or anyone. He didn’t know how to balance work with everything else. But at the time, I couldn’t let go of the assumption because of trust issues due to being cheated on in a previous relationship so I expected the worst. I was insecure tbh. Now the majority of my assumptions were debunked with validation.

So today, we’re back together. We’re currently working on our relationship and improving our communication. So far, it’s going very well. After all this time, we still loved each other. He’s not a bad guy but he made himself look incriminating & made poor choices but they weren’t too extreme. It could’ve been worse. He apologized and doesn’t want to risk losing me again. We sort of laughed it off about the whole situation and left it all in the past. I think we needed that time to be apart in order for things to fall in place, and I think it’s working. We’re closer than before.