How can you tell if a guy is using you?

Anonymous
I’m going to keep this short since the last one I tried to right crashed.

Lets call this guy T. I met T through a mutual childhood friend of mine through snapchat. T is a Lance Corporal Marine, Added him. We talked a little bit, life got busy so we didn’t talk for a couple of months. Mid April 2023 comes around and we started doing snap streaks, he started saying things like “so Beautiful” “you’re so gorgeous” etc. We would talk 24/7/365 if he had time because of timezones since he is in Okinawa, Japan. We started to get know each-other more, let’s just say he fell in love me with too early or too fast, he starts dropping the “I adore you” or “I love you” bombs on me. I didn’t know how to react to this at the time so I said it to him back, which I realized was wrong. I told him that I wasn’t ready for a relationship days later as I just want to focus on myself and college, which he understood but asked if we could continue talking and I said “yes”. Continuing on into May he started to talk about the future like marriage and sex etc, he also sent me a gift which took almost a month to come but it was just a cat plushie pillow he got from Amazon. I never received a gift from a guy before so it gave me butterflies. He also thought about buying a ring and that’s when I said it was too fast. He also told his sister about me which his sister told me about to her mom and now they’re following me on instagram. Now its June 6th and he started to become dry and I started to feel overwhelmed by the constant “I love you” bombs and I asked if we could slow down and he said “Ok”. We barely talk now.

I also feel like he doesn’t care about me anymore or just using me. I started to loose feelings for him because it got dry and all he replies with now is “Meh” “Hm?” “Ok” or a “:)”. I don’t know what I should do?
How can you tell if a guy is using you?
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