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Input: I'm 24yo finished my studies, already landed a high paying career making 120k a year. Not to be full of myself but people have told me I'm attractive.


Anyway there's this guy I see around often and we always have googly eyes for each other. We chat briefly and the banter is just completely natural. He seems soo genuinely excited when he sees me with a big smile. We've been acquaintances for a while. He eventually asks me for a coffee and gives me his number.


Now this guy has a pretty rough look about him. I don't think he's a player but he gets attention from girls and has an air of easygoingness and confidence about him. I've personally seen someone annoy him but he brushes it off. I text him saying I'm interested in grabbing a drink. He gets a little flirty and sets the plans up picking out a bar for us.


We texted a few days. I was talking to my friend and she is telling me how this guy needs to earn it and I came across as too easy. He works a minimum wage job. So I text him saying "I'm not totally sure about our date since I got of a relationship." I leave it open for him to pursue me.


He texts me back "ok well if you change your mind let me know". I got really upset he didn't think I was worth the effort. I don't hear from him for a week. Until he texts me out of the blue inviting me to hang with his friends which I turned down. He goes missing again until 10 days later he texts me asking a question about myself. I left him on read, I feel like I don't deserve this sporadic bullshit.


He did mention he has problems going on at work. I thought they were just excuses at the time. But in hindsight he was telling the truth and lost a lot of work.


Whenever I bump into him he is polite, but he's not excited when he sees me. It's been 2 months and no-one has reached out to each other. I really was hoping he would try and talk to me again.


So it's been 2 months and I texted him "hey". He replied with "who's this?". Clearly having deleted my number.


This made me soo angry. I'm just not sure If I'm angry at myself or if he was just not that into me. Who was the asshole?

valuing my self and wanting this guy to try harder