Is it normal if he doesn't know how to end it?

I've asked the guy I've been dating or seeing or whatever what does he want. He kept saying he doesn't know what he wants. I feel for the most part that its a load of bull. I think he is just saying that to make me feel better rather than just straight up tell me,"I'm done with you." I doubt it because he doesn't want to hurt my feelings since I told him idc what the answer is, I just want to know what it is so we can go from there. Then he said "idc if I hurt your feelings, I'm serious I don't know what I want." Why is it so hard for him to just tell me he doesn't like me anymore? Clearly, thats what he is feeling since he doesn't care about me. Every time we go through an argument like this, he puts effort after but goes back to his old ways pretty quickly. Why? Why is he pretending to care when he doesn't feel like it in the first place? Stop wasting both of our times and say the truth. But you ask, why am I still here? Cause my feelings for him are really strong and have been pushing me to give him chances, one after the other. I have actually moved on but all of a sudden he texts me and says "Do you wanna talk? because I do care." I was like great, I am trying to move on and you just contact me when you feel like it. He leads me on really badly. He'll talk to me and raise my hopes, then goes back to being careless. He claims thats his personality so he doesn't know when he looks careless since he is just being himself. I've made excuses for him saying that is his personality and as much as I like him, I'm going to try and accept them. But obviously, its way harder than just saying it. At the end of the day, I try to look at this from a guy's perspective and the only thing that comes to mind is "he wants his cake and eat it too." Obviously, he doesn't want to call it off because he wants to make sure that I will always be there for him when he needs/wants me. Unless a guy can explain to me if there is another valid reason why he keeps flip flopping, that's the only thing that is making sense right now.