Is this normal ?

At some point this summer, BF stopped saying, I love you.
Although, if pressed, he would certainly say that he did love me, but he stopped saying it spontaneously.
He did have a new saying (so to speak) and that was: I'm scared of you.
He started saying it off off and on, mostly during discussions of the demise of our future together. On some occasions, he would add: ''and that's not normal.''
It ended up sounding like this:
I'm scared of you and that's not normal.
I soon began hearing these words in my head, even when he wasn't around and sometimes days after we'd last seen each other or even spoken to each other.
Especially during moments of particular stress (tired, angry, hungry, lonely, you know), I would hear:
I'm scared of you and that's not normal.
Over and over again.
I went, rather abruptly I think, from
I love you.
to
I'm scared of you and that's not normal.

*

Years ago, a relationship that meant very much to me crumbled between my hands, mostly because of my ego.

After months of silent seperation, I called one of his work colleagues under the guise of finding out how he was doing, but really to get a little closer to him and thus balm my sanguined heart.

''He's doing fine, '' his colleague told me. ''He's much better and much happier since you two parted.''

I guess he was a little scared of me too.

And it wasn't normal.