Need help with very complicated Situation...a guys in put would be helpful!

2 weeks ago, I posted a message about a very complicated long distance relationship I had with a guy I had met on line. The day after I posted the message, he had said to me, "you know I was unsure, about this distance thing from the start. I don't think we can continue it because I don't wanna get too close to you, and the longer im with u the harder that is." ----K my friends tell me when they heard this, that they think he is getting to close and doesn't want to, because he feels its impossible and we will both wind up hurt in the end. (fair enough) So after that, things were kinda awkward for a few days. I wasn't sure what to say to him, and I thought he was avoiding me altogether. Finally I got the nerve to ask him about it, and he said no, he wasn't saying nething because I wasn't. I also got up the nerve to ask him honestly, if it was just the distance as I was not sure. I asked him if he would still be interested if their was no distance between us. he replied. "Yes sorry I would" Now this confused me because I wasn't quite sure if this was a yes or a no. My friends again claim they believe it to be a yes, but again I wasn't too sure.
Now lately we have been spending alot of time together online, and he once again has been teasing me about things. He never comes right out and says anything at all about how he feels or nothing. but he says stuff like..."I can't find my phone, i'd get you to call me....but well you know." and one day he was eatting something and he was like "well this is way too much for me, I can't finish...what am i to do with it...no one here to take it off my hands guess I'll throw it away." So finally I decided, to tell him I couldn't just easily turn my feelings off for him, and I asked him if that bothered him, he said no and the teasing me, and making me laugh, hes doing all the more.
As sweet as this guy is he is like neman and a closed bottle, when it comes to things so I am wondering if maybe he is trying to tell me something in his own way with out coming right out and saying he can't turn his feelings off either. Or something.
I know we will most likely always just be friends unless we are given a miracle and one or the other just happens to go to the other. I just can't see that happening...he lives over seas, has a good job and told me there is no way he can come here...and told me if only I had met him a while before he would have. I can't see neway for me going to him either because I have a child so there for i have ties to where I live. but some piece of me just wont give up hope that someday things will be different.
So I guess what I am asking...is are my friends right, does this man have feelings for me, and will not out right admit it, because he doesn't see it ever happening...and doesn't wanna get close. Or does he really just wanna be friends and is too nice to say so?