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Hey everyone, I’m looking for your input and advice. ****not complaining, I just need help understanding bc I’m a dumb cis straight white male****

Am I leading these women on somehow?

I went through a breakup in September, with 0 bad terms between us, she was way out of my league both physically and as a human. I was and still am deeply in love with her, and I never shut the fuck up about her to people while I was with her (almost 2 years). We’re still super close.

about me (just trust that my self assessment is true for this exercise): I’m a lot of fun, around 30 years old, attractive but not active, so I have a dad bod but I’m really fucking funny and charismatic. I have a lot of beautiful platonic and meaningful female friendships that are strictly friendships. I’m a sweet heart and people are generally protective of me, because I’m depressed and having a hard time and they all love me more than I do. Aka, women see that and feel safe around me.

at the same time, I have a dad bod, my life is a mess right now, I’m openly still in love with my girlfriend, I communicate that “I’m not ready to date anyone right now.” I’m about to start attending both NA and AA meetings. I feel like somehow, me being at the lowest point in my life, is somehow attracting all these beautiful women who are initiating conversations with me and asking me to hang out.

I haven’t slept with anyone since my ex because I’m not ready for that, it would make me too sad. But, I’m a total flirt.
Anyway, one of my gal pals said that my behavior is confusing, because I’m vulnerable and texting with them, and still flirty. But I’m just thinking like, “surely my life is so shitty right now that no woman wants any part of the mess that I am right now.”

so why do you think I’m getting this new attention?

Basically an ex went out of her way to contact me despite me blocking her on almost everything just to tell me she has a new boyfriend. I was a bit puzzled tbh we broke up because I didn’t feel like we had that kinda connection that’s like a spark and it hurt her, tired being friends with her for a bit but she kept trying to rekindle our short lived relationship so I blocked her on almost everything.. except my Xbox because I forgot so she texts me on that to ask how I am and to tell me she has a new man, I congratulate her and say I wish them both well but follow up with saying you probably shouldn’t contact me anymore then as you don’t want to upset him. She then responded with “it’s okay he trusts me like I trust him” So I basically insisted she leaves me alone by saying still I bet he wouldn’t like it, have a good one and she eventually excepted that and said “you too”
The whole encounter seemed cringy tbh and confusing 😅
But what do you girls and guys think? Is she trying to make me jealous?