To think he isn't interested anymore ?

[asabatt]

Chatting to a man on line for a few days and have loose plans to meet. Both 50, both v busy with respective responsibilities and live two hours from each other.
We chat a few times through the day and I would be quicker to respond. He did tell me before that he has been pulled up before by people about not responding immediately but that he doesn't always have phone and isn't always on it when he does.
So lovely exchanges today, relaxed and easy but he stopped responding a few hours ago .
He has however been in WhatsApp but just hasn't opened my message.
So is this a fade out ?
I mean, a person who is interested would surely read a message from someone they were interested in, right?
Or as a newbie to this world of dating , is this perfectly ok and acceptable to you?
I'm not bothered either way as we haven't met yet anyway, so nif thing to lose but interested in replies and expectations, thanks 😊

I had horrible texting anxiety when me and my partner first got together. He would sometimes take about 8 hours to reply and I'd just assume he was dead!

I would try to not over think it too much. The more you do the worse the anxiety is! Just be authentic, don't play any games and take what he says at face value.

He's more than likely not read it because he wants to take time to write a proper reply /he wants to keep you waiting a bit!