Is it normal younger guy

TLDR summary - I met this guy at a club almost three months ago - we got on immediately and ended up making out a lot that night, and have been sending between 80-200 text messages a day since, but still haven't met up, even though we live in the same city.

He is quite a bit younger than me (he lied when I originally met him - he said he was 23, I'm about to turn 25, turned out he only just turned 21). He's a student, while I'm a creative writer who also writes commercially for a very well known company as a day job - he's very intelligent, and he seems fascinated by my writing (he googled my name and found some published creative pieces, and since then I send him stuff I'm working on when he asks)-he's asked me on dates a number of times, usually at night when drunk, but then he cancels the day before. When I asked him about it, he said that his gf and him have just broken up and he's scared of hurting her (she's still in his close friendship circle) but also of getting into a new relationship -I said there's no pressure, I'm not looking for anything serious etc etc. But it still hasn't happened.

I kinda felt like he just wanted to be friends, but when I mentioned another guy who'd asked me out, he got really jealous and we ended up talking about 'us' and the whole not meeting up thing again. He said he's 'a pussy' - he said I have everything he is looking for in a woman, and he's worried that if we meet up he will fancy me a lot. He said I'm the most interesting girl he knows and that he really wants to see me in person, but that he's scared and that he's destructive in relationships - I don't know. I don't really get it.

I don't know if he's intimidated by me because I'm older and more successful, if his gf and he are actually still seeing each other, if actually he's worried that he won't fancy me if we meet up and then it'd make things awkward and we'd lose the closeness we have at the moment, if he feels there's a lot of pressure for things to go well because we've been talking so long and he values our chats so much, or even if he is just interested because he thinks I might write a best seller or something (he has made jokes asking me to write about him),I really don't know. It's he who contacts me, usually from the moment he gets up till when he goes to bed, and I simply don't get why he doesn't want to meet in person. Any suggestions welcome!

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  • ilovetoiletrolls

    This has nothing to do with age because you're the same age. There's no difference between a few years. If you were a lot older than him, I could completely understand but there's not much age difference. Sounds like he's unsure what he wants and is still sensitive from the previous relationship. I think he needs time a bit and get his life together. I'd just wait it out more and remain friends. My boyfriend and I were friends before we started dating and it seems to be going fine!

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  • Mersaphe

    I think he wants to be more than friends but he's nervous about actually meeting you in person because he thinks that he'll leave a negative impression or you won't like him.

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  • RoseIsabella

    Forget about him. He's already lied to you once.

    The first time someone lies to you should be the last time, my friend.

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