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I’ve been off the dating apps since the end of last yr. I have my profile on hidden, only matches are able to reach me. Recently, this rando sent a follow up message last month. He asked to message on Snapchat because he didn’t check the app often. I add him, there were times where he’d take hours to reply. He justified that he works in fire safety and does not have time to reply often in the day. Sometimes he’d take an hr, sometimes he’d take 8. I had enough and just removed him as a friend on SC. Within an hr, he msgs me on the dating app saying that he was trying to message me to ask if I’d like to meet up. That day was his day off and would have time to speak properly. He tried justifying his delayed replies and asked if we could text instead because that’s the quickest way to get hold of him. I think last week he tried adding me on SC again. I asked what he wanted & he wanted to see if we could pick up where we left off. I blocked him and that’s the end of that. I just met such flaky and weird guys on the dating apps, I have no expectations. More bad than good has happened & that’s why my account is on pause. I trust my gut for moving forward.

So I’ve been off the dating apps since the end of last yr. I have my profile on hidden, only matches are able to reach me. Recently, this rando sent a follow up message last month. He asked to message on Snapchat because he didn’t check the app often. I add him, there were times where he’d take hours to reply. He justified that he works in fire safety and does not have time to reply often in the day. Sometimes he’d take an hr, sometimes he’d take 8. I had enough and just removed him as a friend on SC. Within an hr, he msgs me on the dating app saying that he was trying to message me to ask if I’d like to meet up. That day was his day off and would have time to speak properly. He tried justifying his delayed replies and asked if we could text instead because that’s the quickest way to get hold of him. I think last week he tried adding me on SC again. I asked what he wanted & he wanted to see if we could pick up where we left off. I blocked him and that’s the end of that. I just met such flaky and weird guys on the dating apps, I have no expectations. More bad than good has happened & that’s why my account is on pause. I trust my gut for moving forward.

I have known this guy my whole life. His mum has been friends with my nan since before we were both born so we are family friends. He is 24 and I am 20. We lost contact for a bit over the years but reconnected properly 2 and a half years ago and both told eachother that we had a crush on the other when we were growing up. Since then we have spoken often but never dated. We go through the same cycle of saying we like eachother and want to make it "official" but he always comes up with something afterwards like "i have commitment issues", "I'm not ready for a relationship" or "I don't know how my mum would react". We meet up every few months and usually end up being intimate then he ghosts for weeks or months. We have a good laugh when we are together and it could be amazing if we saw eachother more often. He got out of a very physically abusive relationship with a girl where he had to get a restraining order, so I always use that as the reason he might be scared to commit. I met his mum recently which seemed like a big step cause I didn't see her for the 2 and a half years we were talking and she is the most important person in his life, but I still feel like I am getting mixed signals from him. Don't know whether it is time to move on or whether I might be getting somewhere.