Is he leading me on?

[JJm1234]

I’ve been seeing this guy for almost 9 months now. About a month ago he referred to me as his ‘girlfriend’ to someone. I liked him doing it so I asked him if I am his girlfriend and he said yeah. I then told him he was my boyfriend. We’ve just been on holiday together for 12 days and had a great time with each other. Even there he told me I was his girlfriend. But now we’re back home he’s been a bit off with me. I went out for a drink yesterday with my friend and I text him saying some girl I work with who was also out had said to me “where is your boyfriend tonight?” His reply to this was ‘did you say “what boyfriend?”. I was taken aback so I asked him if he was my boyfriend. His reply was ‘Man friend’ and then ‘other half’. I was so confused so I asked him if I was his girlfriend. His response to this was ‘young chick friend’ and then he said ‘yes girl friend’. But he left a space in the middle of the word girlfriend. I was left feeling really hurt and confused by it and wondered if I was overthinking it but since we’d just come back off holiday together and he had been previously referring to me as his girlfriend I felt like my hurt feelings towards it were valid.
I haven’t asked him about it since. I was messaging him telling him I missed him but he said I was only saying it because I was drunk. At that point I was only tipsy. He was really off with me and I can’t understand why. A part of me feels like he’s just been telling me what I want to hear.

[spartan55]

You already posted this once 🙄, you girls are so weird... Anywho... like I said the first time you posted this, it sounds like he was just kidding around with you and you got all bent out of shape. Not to mention the conversation was by text which is the worst way to have any sort of meaningful conversation.

[JJm1234]

I posted it again because it was playing on my mind and wanted to get some different opinions. Thank you for your response though

[spartan55]

Well have you talked to him about it, IN PERSON?

[CindersFire]

Honestly, it's hard to tell from this, he could have just gotten cold feet, but it's something you definitly should talk to him about. It's well within your right to clarify your relationship for good or bad, and if he's not willing to do so you'd be best to just walk away.