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So I was talking to this guy for three months. We recently stopped talking though because he mentioned that he was trying to choose between me and his ex and I told him I would make it easy for him and that I wasn’t really feeling what we had anymore. That was about 2 weeks ago. A few days after that happened, I reached out to him and told him that I wanted to make sure things were cool between us and that there was no bad blood. He told me there wasn’t and that we were still cool. Well over the past few weeks, we’ve still been messaging each other mainly playing iPhone games. We’ve had a few side conversations, but nothing too significant. Well at one point he asked if we could still hang out as friends even tho I’m no longer romantically attracted to him and he also mentioned that he’s happy that I still talk to him. We were messaging tonight and we had been rather cordial all day and then he asked me “have you found my replacement yet?” I asked him why he cared. At first he said “who said that I cared” but then after I asked him why he asked he said “just wanted to know. Maybe I do care.” I responded saying “how’s your ex.” And I told him that he should worry about her not me. Then he responded saying “that he’s only worried about her and that he has no intention on focusing on anyone else.” Then to clarify, he added “let’s make sure we’re on the same page. Just because I asked that question doesn’t mean there’s any intention behind it.” So my question is... why would he ask me that question then. I mean, I understand him just wondering, but... I can’t help but wonder if there actually was an ulterior motive.