Does he love me? I think so, but I need assurance. What are these signs?

So we’ve been talking a bit. He looks deeply into my eyes a lot.

We’ve just been on a church mission trip, riding the same church van. In our church, guys and girls don’t sit together. So our seats were a few apart. He was behind me a couple rows. But he’d still look me straight in the eye. Like even if I looked away, he’d keep looking at my eyes. Once, I looked and he looked, I looked away; I looked back, he’s still looking, I looked away; I ended up looking away a few times and looking at him like 4-5 times. Finally he looked away.

He took a lot of time last night to tell me about things going on in his family and with his cousins and aunts and uncles, whom I’ve not met.

He’s started treating me more like a girlfriend recently.

He’s been a little protective but also started showing me some of his soft side for me.

Does he love me?

Does he love me? I think so, but I need assurance. What are these signs?
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