I know this guy through and through - we have been friends for three years, and never really been good at communicating our feelings because we liked each other that entire time. We are now dating and, while it's all new, he's been very serious about making it work this time and not letting it fall through with miscommunication. During the week before we started dating he told me he loved me, and that he even thought I was the one. He wants to plan a vacation with me and hopes to live close to me when we graduate in May. I have felt this way for a long time, just never acted on my feelings. I told him the same thing. This leads me to this week.
He now believes that we should take things slow, like any relationship would start out when two people are getting to know each other. It's just weird because, after he told me all of those things, it now feels like he's pulling away. However, he still texts me, hangs out, and laughs with me. While we were intimate last night, I told him I loved him but I didn't hear it in return.
I don't think I should be scared because I know him and I know when he is running away. It's not like that this time. But why would he promise the moon and the stars and then take it away? Hold back? Did he scare himself? Or is it that he just wants to make it work so bad that he's walking on egg shells and double checking his step?