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I am 33 attractive lady and just got out of a 5-year relationship about 4 months ago. I am extremely happy to be out of that past relationship but am feeling a bit rusty when it comes to dating these days. I am extremely young at heart and am often told I don’t look a day over 27, and keep a wide range of friends of all ages. I met a younger man who’s in my extended circle of friends about 3 months ago and have been hanging out with him casually since. He is 25 and although I don’t notice much of a generation gap between us when it comes to conversation/interests/music/etc I seem to have gotten myself into a daily texting relationship with only a couple days a week where we actually see each other. Now when we first started hanging out we would hook up and sometimes have sex, other times we’d just makeout and I’d stay the night with him just spooning. He’d say sweet things like “I really like you” and “you’re the cutest” and his affectionate body language both public and private told me he was really into it, so I thought it was progressing like most of the other relationships I’d started in the past. Then about 2 months ago he said “I’m really attracted to you, enjoy our conversations, have a lot of fun with you, but I’m not really looking for anything right now. And sex kind of confuses things” To which I said I really like you too, but I understand. After that I thought it was pretty much over and we’d just remain friends.I left town for the holidays and he’d text about every other day to say hi. When I got back he said he missed me. And then he started back up again with the “how was your day” daily conversations and continued to invite me out with him and friends a couple times a week - to which I gladly obliged. And ever since, we’ve continue to hang out and I’d spend the night a couple times a week, we’d always makeout…but no sex. Recently one of our mutual friends said to me “he would totally be into this, but he’s worried because your recently out of a long-term relationship.” Another friend came up to me and said I heard you two are dating - that’s so great! I mentioned to her that there’s a bit of an age difference but I really like him. She said he doesn’t care about that.In addition, he mentioned to me that one of his other friends had a crush on me, but he told his friend “no way man”. I’m so confused…there are other guys starting to express interest in me and I’d like to pursue those options if the current guy still doesn’t want anything. But I’d truly like to give the current guy a shot first because at this point he’s got my heart (although I haven’t told him that yet). I’m just so confused about it all in addition to the initial sex and now no sex just makeouts. I obviously have to bring up my feelings with him soon, but I just wanted to get some other people take on it in order to get a better understanding on this all. Like I said, I’m rusty at this dating thing so maybe I’m just trying to jump the gun a bit and should be a little more patient with this guy to see how things play out.

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