I’m 26 and he’s 28. We’ve been together for 5 months.
In the beginning he was giving me lots of attention, lots of text messages and a great physical relationship. Telling me he was punching etc.
He is lovely now, but he’s more jokey about things. He texts a lot less and will make comments such as ‘I’m doing the community a favour by being with you’ (I know this is completely a joke as he will touch my leg and laugh as he says it). He called today and I missed the call. I then called back and we started talking for two minutes and then he hold me he had to go and he would call me later. He didn’t call.
Sexually, he has dropped off sending me flirty messages over the phone. When we are with eachother he likes to tease me. For example, I saw him over the weekend and yesterday and we didn’t have sex, but 10 minutes until he was about to leave for work in the morning he starts kissing me passionately and kissing down my chest. I playfully asked him to get back in bed and he told me he couldn’t as he was running late. This was at 7am and we had been up since half 5.
He then got to work and jokingly asked me to send him a naughty picture.
I just don’t know how to read him. He keeps making the comment ‘treat them mean and keep them keen’. I’ve just told him that this will push me further away. (It really isn’t!)
It was a big step for me to be in this relationship with him as l had not long left my previous 8 year relationship after being cheated on.
Any advice? Do I play him back at his own game?
At this point in my life I would like to be thinking about settling down after a couple of years. I’m not sure I’m into the game playing.