He didn’t want to talk to me on the phone because he doesn’t want to have to say no to me like he’s done so many times before. 
It is difficult to know how to proceed. Even though there are so many incompatibilities, they are diminished by the undeniable emotional energy between us. The question to which we do not know the answer is, is that "love" enough? It would be easiest to do nothing, to let this fade like I’ve done before. Unless doing nothing leads to a life with less passion than it would otherwise have, that is. I promised myself I wouldn’t call.
I called.