Does this boy like me?

[dizzy130]

So there's this boy. We've been friends for 3 years, and have gotten much closer in the past 6 weeks or so.

We've been talking every single day by gchat or email or text. For 4 1/2 hours last Saturday night about all kinds of crap. The kind of talk you have in person when you're just starting a relationship, only it was over gchat. We both work in politics and fell asleep texting each other on Election Day. He praised my dancing skills, which are grade-a lame, basically out of nowhere - we went to a wedding together in September so he knows (this wedding is where the talking every day started). Asked why I wasn't "in pearls and a witch hat" (I'm from Delaware and was thinking of being Christine O'Donnell for Halloween) "out breaking hearts and collecting candy," direct quote, on Halloween. He is trying incessantly to get me to go to see Paranormal Activity 2 because he knows I can't deal with scary movies. Said he was going to "frisk" me, his word, to make sure I didn't bring popcorn to his house when I come over to watch Paranormal Activity 1. Said I "know how to make a guy feel good," direct quote, and thanked me for leaving his ego intact when he beat me by 25 points in this game we're playing against each other on our iPhones. We're playing this game 5-10 times a day against each other. Shared a hotel room for the wedding and a tent for camping in October. Camping, we stayed up for hours talking after we got in our sleeping bags and in the morning he put his blanket over me when I was cold and wasn't getting up yet. After the wedding, we had a drunken pillow fight. DRUNKEN PILLOW FIGHT. And he drunk texted me from a wedding he went to the weekend after the wedding we went to together. We email each other funny or political links constantly and have 20+ email long chains about them.

So this boy likes me, right? Wrong. Today he posted on Facebook that he's "in a relationship" with a girl he went on a date with a few weeks ago (and maybe since too, but he's only mentioned her once in allllll this talking we're doing, and it was in direct response to a question I asked).

Possibilities I see for why nothing has happened: I'm in the "friend zone;" I dated a friend of his and he's uncomfortable with that, even though his friend and I were over a year ago and the friend is dating someone else now; I was just not close enough to him before to know this flirty side of him and he's actually like this with everyone (unlikely, he barely even hugs people even though the rest of our group is very huggy).

Anyone have an opinion about what's going on here?

[leoben]

I was into a friend's ex and even though I avoided dating her out of respect for my friend if you stuck me in a hotel room with her alone and drunk there would at very least be a confession of my crush.

That being said, I think he really enjoys your company and knows how to talk to women, but you aren't what he's looking for relationship wise.

[YouAreBeautiful]

Yes he likes you. If he spent that much time talking to you he likes you. It sounds like he has complications in his life. Obviously there is another woman involved who he is or was in a relationship with very recently. Do you want this type of dude who talks to other girls when he is in relationships?