Does this guy like me?

I met this guy at Uni, I got interviewed for one of his class projects. We exchanged numbers & it seemed pretty friendly.

Eventually after him pushing ‘friendly’ vocabulary I was able to mention I was in a relationship, I thought he would ghost me but he didn’t. He started being less forward for sure but we would text A LOT. Honestly, sometimes the conversations would feel a bit inappropriate, but I couldn’t help but entertain them.

Randomly, he will bring up my boyfriend and be like “what does your boyfriend do for work?” “does that require schooling?” “why don’t you talk about him more?” and then he will drop the topic..

In person he always tells me that I look cute, I look good, whatever but he never says anything more about it. Not only that but he usually sits next to me and he will just randomly pat my back, openly sniff me and tell me I smell good? He will also touch my leg or put his head on my shoulder (like a headbutt) and leave it there for a bit AND sometimes he will touch my clothes, and follow up saying that he likes them.

If I sit across from him he will also stare at me DEADPAN and will not even crack a smile if I look at him, kinda serial killer vibes..

Despite that, we have hung out a couple times and he holds the door open for me to the car, shops, restaurant etc. but what threw me off is the fact he said “I hate how people think me being a gentleman is flirting” ?

We hung out again and this time it was with another one of his girl friends (there were two other people too, one guy, and one girl) and the whole time his friend was clinging onto him. They have been friends for a long time & from an outside perspective it looked like they were flirting.

Do you think he likes me or do you think he is like this to every girl & I’m not special or do you think he’s trying to be nonchalant?

He said he is not interested in anybody that’s in a relationship out of respect. (Despite our friendship feeling sort of inappropriate)…

Does this guy like me?
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