Does it sound like he was jealous?

[Anonymous]

I was mentioning a girlfriend had brought up to me that she knew of a guy who liked me. My friends with benefits was around for it and almost seemed a little jealous. He said whoever the other guy who liked me was wasn't "ballsy" enough since he wasn't coming to directly approach me.

I said that it was true that I did prefer a direct approach and I did like for guys to just tell me if they like me. He then right away told me he liked how we were. I guess he was meaning he liked how we were together or something. Was he trying to get me to stay with him instead of potentially exiting our "thing" to get with another guy?

For more insight, my friends with benefits has told me stuff before like he thinks I'm cute, he thinks I'm always beautiful, he deems me girlfriend material, I'm really easy to talk to, etc. I don't know if any of that would help determine why he said he liked how we were or whether he was jealous of the thought of another guy having eyes on me.

Updates

11 mo

Later on he also said we needed to sleep together more before someone asked me out. Is he afraid of losing me/what we have?

[WhitneySnow]

I think your friends with benefits likes you, or at least wants to keep you and him as fwbs without another guy in the picture. Yes he’s jealous.

[spartan55]

Nice attempt at making him jealous, but it didn't work. He is only worried about some dude stealing his free pie🥧. If he wanted to be in a relationship with you then you would be in one.

[Asker]

I wasn't trying to. I didn't expect my friend to say that. And I still have no idea if there was any truth to what she said or she was screwing with me. We agreed on a friends with benefits arrangement and right now, that's great for me. I am good with just having consistent sex with someone. Relationship things can wait.

[Asker]

by the way I was mentioning it to another friend.

[spartan55]

But YOU said it around him, not your friend. If you didn't know if it was true then why did you say within earshot of him? Come on, just stop already. You said it to see how he would react. You aren't fooling anyone.

[Asker]

I didn't know he would hear it

[spartan55]

Okay, just keep doubling down. So if you are cool with just a casual sex thing then why do you care if he is jealous or not? That is contradictory don't you think?

[Asker]

It was me, another friend and him. I mentioned it to the other friend what the girl had said.

[spartan55]

Yeah, I got it. Why are you repeating yourself?
Way to duck my follow up question by the way...😂😂

[Asker]

I just want to make sure we are still on the same page with things

[spartan55]

Lol... sure thing.