Search Results: strange feelings

One of my friends told me that she's been dating this guy exclusively for 8 months, though they're not officially boyfriend and girlfriend.

This was strange to me, as my approach to dating is different. I prefer befriending the person first before deciding whether I like them romantically or not and if I do, I'd go on a date with them if the feeling's mutual. This process could take about 3-6 months. However, I decided to try dating through apps like Hinge.

I recently started going on dates with someone who I'd known for 3 weeks (we'd been on 3 dates so far). I'm unsure of when is an appropriate time to talk to my date about the status of our relationship and when it should become official.

Is 3 months of dating too soon to decide if it should be a serious relationship? Is 8 months too long that it becomes a situationship?

She is 25 and he is 29. He said he is just having a gut feeling they won't work out and being ADHD, he follows it. He also said he feels like she is more invested and loves him more than he loves her.

They have been together 4 years.

However they didn't finish the conversation just kind of walked away from it. When she asked the next morning if they were together or broken up, again met with silence and both just kind of walked away from it.

As she was leaving, he gave her a hug and kiss (he rarely does, not a real affectionate person) so she found that strange. SO she was like, "Are we good? Like we're going to try and work things out?" He said, "we're good, i'll call you later"

When he called they just talked like normal about work, their day, etc. So she is so confused on how to handle the situation without scaring him into rethinking breaking up but also she needs to know. WHY would he all of a sudden show a grand gesture of emotion and call her if he was so adamant about breaking it off?