Cooking dinner for my date! Help!

[Confused009]

Hey guys
Need some advice yet again regarding cooking dinner for date it's our fifth date. I really do like him and I feel we are well suited.

I'm pretty sure he is into me as he tends to arrange the next date and on the last we were at his place had coffee in town and walked holding hands together.

So now it's my turn to entertain at home and I'm cooking. But I've already started to have doubts in that I'm pretty sure he is still dating other people ie exclusive to me and I'm worried that cooking for him might be showing too much effort and interest. I feel like I should make more effort to date other people myself...

Op you should ask them to post this in relationships.

Scare him away?! Wtf?! Have you suggested he meets YOUR parents??!

Op you sound vulnerable to me. Please listen to your gut instincts and don't settle for anything less than feeling comfortable and relaxed!!

Ok if I ask from another angle when is it roughly normal to go exclusive from posters dating experience

OP just say "I'm not keen on multidating once it goes beyond a few dates, what do you think?"

Update
So dinner went well though slightly late ( lots of snacks, Caribbean mutton curry, coconut rice, salad) no desert as really should be dieting!

Anyway I was nervous and did ask him about the exclusivity thing... well I kind of said I was going on a date and he said he was surprised thought we were exclusive by now. The conversation about multi dating was before we had kissed and he felt that was ok but now that things have progressed he felt it was unspoken rule that we were exclusively dating.

Ok I then asked if he had deleted his accounts for OLD but I'm pretty sure he said he still has tinder. Anyway conversation improved, things heated and intimate times happened, lots of cuddling and he leaves! No text yet but he did say he was tired and had been up since 5:30am fair enough! I offered him to stay but he seemed to want to go home.

He now wants to spend Saturday with his lodger friend a guy as that's what they do and Sunday made up some excuse about family coming. He did mention meeting up again on Monday... honestly my instincts tell me he is dating someone else but hey I'm just leaving it any thoughts? Should he be wanting to spend every moment if the upcoming weekend with me if we are supposedly exclusive?

Sorry it's long!

Hmm I would be very wary about him. His plans for the weekend sound a bit vague.

I would be wary too, he is prioritising a day with his lodger when he could spend it with you

Yeah gut instinct says this and I really don't want to waste my time with guys like this he claims to have been dating since 2015! And has still not found anyone... I think he has had a bad time with his previous long term girlfriend and is really really picky

Sounds like he wants you to be exclusive to him but not the other way round. I wouldn't waste too much time and effort on him.

Try stepping back and being busy yourself to see what he does. Dating as adults with commitments is a bit of a dance I find, one minute swept up together the next you are moving forward and no one is there, step back and if he is interested he should show it. If he doesn't you have your answer!