Is he playing cat and mouse games?

[Anonymous]

I feel like I've wasted a lot of time on this particular guy. Met on tinder in November met up twice and once in January. He's been flaky with his plans most weekends cancelling for next week and so on. Text sometimes in the week I thought he was a bad texted wouldn't always reply or take long or stop replying after two messages. I initiated a lot more. Lockdowns happened then we weren't in the same area we didn't chat much only if I text him we went 2/3 weeks without talking he didn't text once unless I initiated. Sometime we arranged to meet again before he was going back to his area far from he was being wishy washy cancelled that morning and that he didn't know when he'd be back. He keeps saying how he wants to see me soon when I ask how long is soon this month ignores not specifying. Because I'm obviously realising I'm wasting too much time I've lost interest found another guy I like more showing way more interest. Now he's started texting every week for the past 3 weeks telling me he wants to hang out again soon , he wants to see me soon. I'm trying to ignore the message or end the conversation quickly taking longer to reply as I've lost interest I'm trying to figure out how to end it. I'm not into cat and mouse games he's making more effort now that I'm not interested more I ignore he's trying harder. Don't know what to do. If I should flat out tell him I'm not interested that it's been months I don't want to see him again. He's already previously told me he's not looking for anything serious which was fine but I haven't seen the guy in months regardless.

[DannyUk2017]

Hmm... Tough one... it sound that You Both, play the cat and mouse game now...
But for His part of the Fault? Is that... he SUPOSE TO ANSWER MESSAGES, if he would have been so keen to be with you! He supose to be the one to Initiate the meeting/dates if HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO KEEN TO SEE YOU!, so ofcourse you had lost interest! Sounds more like me 😁😁, if i keep trying and i can see the things are fading away, or come to a Stop! I will lose interest too!.
So the best part will be to let him know, that you had tried soo much, so many times, tried everything, and he just Shut You Off! To the point that you couldn't take it anymore!. So its better to tell him frankly what you'r intentions, as it sounds like... you were the second catch, like u say if he was somewhere else, maybe he had some one the entire time, and once he lost that someone, her remembered of you... so just tell him you can't go on like this and is time to part ways...

[In_Trance]

If it involves cheese and cardboard boxes, yes