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So I moved earlier to an apartment complex. And just recently started more getting to know the neighbors with you know limited to do outside work with covid you walk around the block, stay home more, etc.

Anyway one of the neighbors is older, intelligent and in my field so we have a bit to relate on. I find he's upfront (told me some personal things like shoulder injury, etc) in chatting. There's nothing leading to the chats just general talk as would be between people who have degrees of respect. Don't flirt or anything it is all professional

And I noticed his common law wife seems to be on the petty side in talking with her. I told her something related to the complex and next thing I know I have management bothering me.

So think she'll be a problem - I don't mean I am up to anything with him just her being a general bitch

I got drunk and came onto a guy that I had rejected a couple months prior. I told him I had feelings for him.

The very next day he began texting me again, which he hadn’t done since I rejected him (before then he would text me all of the time). He would text me memes or start conversations about really anything. I took this to mean that he was single and still interested.

Come to find out, he wasn’t single. He recently made it official with the girl he had been seeing, but didn’t tell me.

So, I confronted him and said I think he should have told me he had a girlfriend and that I felt mislead and didn’t think we should talk anymore. In response, he told me that he only started texting me again because he didn't want me to be embarrassed about coming onto him, and he wanted me to know that we could still be friends (FYI, we were never really friends). He also said he didn’t tell me he had a girlfriend because she wanted to keep their relationship private. He says he hopes we can still be friends.

I think this is total bs and he knew good and well he was leading me on (maybe for an ego stroke). Do you think he really just wanted to be friends, or was he playing me?