Taurus men on relationships, can you help me out a little?????????????????

My Taurus ex disappeared physically a year ago, he was afraid of committing to me for various reasons, we still kept in contact but, I went on with my life even stopped talking completely for 4 months. All of a sudden he showed up in my life, moved back to my state and everything,so the other day my ex sends me a message saying he's thinking of me, and boom out of nowhere I got the urge to tell him how I felt about us after a year of platonic friendship, still saying we love eachother and miss eachother but, still carrying our love in my heart. I told him how I felt and I pretty much did this because I dont want to keep him around if there was no future. I understand how the Taurus man characteristics work and that gave me the patience to work with him. Needless to say, he has admitted to dealing with someone says its not working and he wants out and then we can be together. Its like he was waiting for me to say something, here I was afraid of the rejection and he actually ready to be with me, I always tried to let him go, I ignored him for months totally and ended up running into him somewhere he said he knew i'd be. He says there's no one like me. Now what I will say is that normally, ecspecially when we were involved anything I brought up about being committed he completely avoided me and would shut down. wouldn't talk to me for days at a time. Those topics became touchy and he would never open up, the more I taked the more he backed away. Now I'm a little creeped out because he is absolutely with clearing things up on his end first. He says he knows we're meant to be. He says he disappeared because he cared about me and didn't want to lie about being invovled with someone else. I mean I just never heard him agree so willingly with me, he always used to give me hell for wanting to be with him. When I backed off before the big break up, he bought me an engagement ring. Has the time we took apart allowed him to see what he was missing and did I make it easy for him by telling him I felt. I have been through some rough times and have confided in him, he does care, I know he loves me, I don't doubt that. But now that I gave him the time off, and told him what I want, he shocked the hell outta me with his willingness. I know he still has to make moves, he says we will be together soon and we are meant to be. I have been nothing but sweet to this man, I am more than deserving of his love, does this mean he finally realizes that too??!! I think I'm freaking out because I could never get him to do anything, no matter how much I pushed, now all I did was nudged him and he's with it. Would he go this far just to string me along? He is not the lying type, can be secretive though, very much a gentleman,