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27F, my mom lives down the road and my dad is out of state. They’re divorced, I find my dad to be the most annoying person on the planet. I see my mom every weekend, I have friends around my age who also say that they’d be annoyed if they were in contact with their parents too often. This applies if you don’t live with your parents, I live alone. I don’t have an issue when my mom FaceTimes me everyday but my dad is so effing annoying. We used to argue when I was younger because I felt like he used to take his anger out on me but things have changed & we haven’t fought in years. I get frustrated at the fact that everyone pussyfoots around him & sympathizes with the fact that his family doesn’t care about him & “he doesn’t have anyone”. My moms family is just as toxic but she has a partner & my half brothers, my dad has friends and chooses to be single. I sometimes wonder if I was married with kids, if he would be in contact with me as often. I don’t have patience & it’s not my fault his family is a POS, I need to live my own life. And please, spare the “treasure it, you’ll miss it once he’s gone”. If you are referring to one of your parents that passed, I know you were probably annoyed if they contacted you this often when they were alive. And sometimes the reasons he calls, his questions and stupid things he says makes me wonder why a phone call is even necessary. Just reply to the text, it’s like he just looks for a reason. I’m going to be thirty and shouldn’t be in contact with my family this often, it feels like I haven’t grown up.

TL;DR: Would being in contact with your parents this often and being independent bother you?

Guy messages me every single day usually for morning till we go to bed. Casually in conversation said he talks to me more than anyone else. Hung out a couple of times, has tried inviting himself to things I am doing, and 95% of the time reaches out first. I rarely reach out first. If he doesn't respond or leaves me on read, usually hours later he'll reach back out or eventually responds to whatever it is he left me on read with.
Met about a month and a half before he left for college in another town, so now the ability to hang out is not quite as easy, I'm very busy with work and school, and of course he's in another town.
We played video games together, he would call me on the phone when we do instead of using a headset (haven't much since school started thought) and occasionally facetimes me. A couple weeks back we facetimed for 3 hours straight.
Downside, he occasionally calls me "bro" or "dude" and talked about a girl he'd met at the college that he was really frustrated with her cause he likes her but her immaturity bother's him. Told me what he was looking for with a girl (which, ironically was describing exactly what we have almost down to a T). I gave him advice on what to do, and that was kind of the end of him discussing girls with me. Other downside, I am older than him.
Cannot distinguish between if he views me as a good friend and buddy, or something more.
Is he just stringing me along and wasting my time, or am I just not being obvious enough about my feelings? Seems like he's getting a little bit distant now, unsure if it's because I'm not really showing interest because I've been afraid to because I am older than him.
Thanks!