Is this emotional cheating? His male friends gave an excuse that emotions flow from positive to negative which is why he did what he did which is pure bs . Sometimes it feels like had the timing been right, things would have been different

So he said his ex was blocking unblocking for 7 months multiple times a week but they didnt talk, but he’d follow her and all after she unblocks, which he didn’t tell me .is this still cheating? What my recent bf (now ex) said when I confronted him about this behaviour He wasn’t over her, he says he wasn’t aware that he wasn’t over her. He’d also like reels that said “ oh how much I yearn for you you’ll never know” “ i cannot imagine another man touching you” He said he felt something with me but not deep enough to continue with a longterm thing Well I loved him immensely and told him I’d wait. He chose another woman and is treating her right, why does it feel like my loss? Since he’s a good man otherwise and we had a good thing going on