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So this guy and I had met a few times before and then stopped talking for some months. Then one day he texts me and asks me to meet him but I keep delaying it. This went on for about 8-9 months, he would mostly be the one to initiate conversations, and then two months ago he was really begging me to meet him but I said I’m busy and then I left him on read for 2 months. After that when I started a convo recently he said he is seeing someone else now casually and not hooking up with other people (I have a feeling he said that to make me jealous) but even tho I was mad after hearing that I told him even I’m seeing someone but I wouldn’t mind meeting you. To which he replied “Yeah I really want to see you. You didn’t meet for so long, else wouldn’t have seen anyone else. But let’s go for a drive or something?”
and now we have plans to meet and he seems very excited but it’s really messing with my head cause I still like him and I don’t want him to see other girls.

I have been recently talking to a guy and we are getting along pretty well, he has even asked me to hang out several times and has made an effort to keep the conversation going. I usually am very nice to him but I do pull away sometimes because I'm busy and because I don't wanna seem clingy, especially because we are just casually seeing each other for now. The thing is, we were talking today about how he had gotten an injury at the gym and I responded with an audio joking about how I had had to look up the muscle he had injured up on google because I didn't even know it existed and told him to go get it checked out, and he left me on read. I know I'm probably just overthinking it, but I just don't understand why he would do that, usually, I only leave people on read when I want to send a message, and when that's not the case, I usually don't open the message until I know I am ready and able to respond, even if I got the notification.