My boyfriend dumped me to protect me?

Sorry if this is long. My boyfriend, O, dumped me yesterday. At first I was upset, angry, and confused, things were perfectly fine the day before and we have been talking about the future for a while. After a while though, I had to know why, the reason he had provided was that his schedule for work was about to increase and he wouldn't have time to be fair to either of us, but I was fine with that, we've been working around schedules, there had to be more to it, so I asked him if I could come over and talk, which I did. When I got there, he was visibly upset. Once we got talking he explained that is work hours are about to be increased by 25 hrs every week. He's already feeling stretched thin which like anyone, makes him stressed. O is bipolar, so when he is stressed, he snaps and the people making me angry and when he was in grade school he became violent. He has NEVER snapped or even said a cruel word to me, but he is afraid of hurting me and this is why he left me. I know this is true because I saw him crying and trying to hide it from me. I don't know what to do, all I want is him and I've explained that I won't leave him and will stand by him and help, but he thinks so little of himself that he won't even try for fear of hurting me. He is what makes me happy, does anyone have any idea of how I can get him back or keep him? I just need help on figuring out what to do.

Hello, The best I would suggest is to take your O to an psychologist. Truely, it will yield results. Seems to be he is too emotional, which does not work in this modern world. Even after you both settle in life, this nature of him could kill u both, spoliing your relationship. If you still believe, he makes a difference to your life, stop worrying and jump into action. All the best Surat

From the looks of it probably he has a commitment phobia. It may not be the work hours but when you both talked of future it must have got him scared to commit.