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There's a guy in my neighborhood who always scopes me out.

He tried chatting me up but kept freezing.

Finally, he managed to look me in the eye and we exchanged "hello"s.

I noticed he wears a thin silver band on his middle finger on his right hand.

He is always staring from afar watching me intently but also breaking and avoiding eye contact -- I do the same because his staring weirded me out.

I can tell he and his co-workers talk about me because I've seen them and also they will look at him and stare at me when I go to his place of business.

He engages in "look at me" behaviours when I'm around

• Preening
• Always walking back and forth
• Adjusting his clothes
• Fidgeting a lot
• Even trying to show off his butt (kinda gross)
• Signing a tune if I'm nearby
• Being bossy to the cooks in the kitchen and trying to look serious and in charge

All of these antics for quite some time makes me thing he just wants validation from me and nothing else.

I've always seen him smoking and would always look at his cigarette in disgust. I haven't seen him smoking for the past little bit.

Since he keeps sending signals but does nothing is his ring a sign of him being in a serious relationship?

Please vote and share your opinion! 🙏🏾

My ex and I went through a lot of fights. Regardless, we managed to make it work because of our strong emotions. Just before our breakup, it reached a point to where he was calling me names and bringing up my family, basically no respect left on his part & coming at me for little things like me saying “thanks” instead of “thank you.” I blew up on him eventually & mentally checked out. 1 day we got into a fight and he said he’d block me (something he does when he’s mad). I then accepted some requests from guys- i was really mad-on social media (didn’t message them and deleted them later. He found out and hell broke and also found platonic msgs between a male friend I’ve known for 5 years. Those msgs included funny memes. I stopped being friends w/ this guy for him. He asked to check my phone, I didn’t agree because he should trust me & wouldn’t want him to think it’s ok to check my phone whenever he feels the need in the future. We ended up breaking up. We kinda kept in touch though to reconcile. Weeks turned into months leading up to us meeting in person. As we were chatting, he told me his expectations which included he checks my phone, I agreed. Then he asks to see my male followers to ask how I know them. I told him some are friends (since HS) and he didn’t like that. He said he doesn’t like his girlfriend to have male friends & I should take off whoever he doesn’t like. I had a reaction and didn’t let him check my phone so ofc he had major issues. We never got back together but now we’re surfacing the relationship again he told me of the same expectations. I’m really conflicted and don’t know if getting back with given expectations are normal or not. Is getting back a good idea?