I need help with this. Can someone give me good advice?

[Anonymous]

I like this person. I am older than him 5 years. I’m going to tell you why I am so confused. I have a feeling this person has a little crush on me. We go out in a group of friends that are his friends and mine. Everytime I don’t want to go he doesn’t want to go. One day at a movie theater he held my hand during a scary movie he offered to hold it a day before during a Group FaceTime the day he didn’t but I reached out for it to break the ice. When we go on car rides he always stares at me. He shows me videos on his phone and looks at my face when he thinks I’m not paying attention. We tease eachother around. He answers my texts he left me on read only 2 times. He watches all my Instagram stories. On the opposite side he never reaches out I always reach out first. He’s dry on texting sometimes. That’s what I don’t get a lot. I have a gut feeling he feels the same but I just want to hear you guy opinion. I just want to accept the fact that he doesn’t do I can focus on other stuff.

[quaranta]

If you are the one who initiates contacts and are never rejectful on his regards, then he knows he has plenty of space to make a move and ask you out or bring up the topic, yet he doesn't. He is maybe not interested enough, or doesn't understand his own feelings, or thinks about multiple girls, or feels too insecure to even try. On the other side, afterall, you get a lot of signals that give you plenty of space to make a move, yet you aren't.
If you continue like this, you will probably naturally get there at some point, through some situation that force some physical contact or to stay alone for a while, or, at some point one of the two looks elsewhere or things get unbalanced on one side with the power struggle (if he is dry and you initiate always contact you risk to go in that direction and lose it, let him initiate contact many more times instead).
So I think you should take action fast enough. You can create a situation where "by accident" you will be alone in a small place or that forces physical contact ("by accident") and then use that situation to talk about it later on (about how you felt etc), or you could actually try telling him you started to feel something for him, but that should be done in real life and with confidence, as if you are serene and not desperate about that at all and as if you know what you want and what you offer, not through text displaying insecurity because it makes you lose a lot of chances of success instead.

[Guy13]

Sounds like he is not mature enough for you at this time.

[Asker]

Does that mean he doesn’t like me then?

[Guy13]

It means he can’t close a deal even though he does like you…

[SwellStroke]

Sounds like time to run an experiment. Don't contact him for a week or two, leave him on read only for that time. NO contact to the best of your ability. See if he steps up, or stays the same. May give you a better idea on where he stands.