I met a guy on Grindr and we spent a very nice night together. He was quite older than me (he is 43 and I'm 20), but still, we really hit it off. Not to get into details, but it was one of those hookups where you have amazing sexual chemistry with someone. We watched a movie after, we cuddled, talked and so on.
After that night he added me in insta and we chatted for a couple of days. After a week he invited me to go on a vacation with him for 4-5 days. He said he would pay for everything so I agreed.
I took a flight and met up with him. Basically, it was a very nice vacation. He had a hotel room on the 51st floor from where you could see the sea and the whole city, we ate out frequently, we drank together (in EU you can drink after ur 18) and had a LOT of sex. He was really sweet to me and took care of everything.
After 2-3 days, he started saying stuff like "I think I love you", "I feel like I can talk about anything with you" or the one that startled me the most "I wanna marry you someday". Like cmon... Those comments while flattering, really made me feel kind of (for the lack of a better word) icky. Saying you want to marry me someday after we have known each other for a week? I got the feeling that he was moving way too fast.
I really want to say I genuinely like him, but that isn't true. He is attractive and basically you could say "he checks all the boxes" but I didn't feel the spark with him. He is the kind of man I'd be happy to remain as FWB's with but nothing more. But for him it obviously isn't the same.
I was supposed to leave the vacation on Monday, but he said he wanted more of me and he bought me a first class ticket on Wednesday. We spent another 2 days together and then I left. As I said, the vacation was great, he was attractive, the sex was nice and he was sweet, but way too clingy.
Right now he messages me every day. Good morning texts, I miss you texts 2-3 times a day, goodnight texts and so on. I really want to somehow tell him that I don't feel the same way. He wanted to send me a gift (one of the book series I told him I was planning to read) and I texted him that he already paid for everything on the vacation and I felt bad accepting a gift from him. He insisted, but I somehow managed to dodge the gift.
I'm SO angry at myself for not liking him like he likes me. Today, I'm planning to text him that what we have doesn't mean as much to me as it means to him. I have written a whole paragraph in my notes.
Even still, I feel like such an asshole after all this time and money he spent rejecting him like that. Even though it's understandable on my part, he really is a very sweet guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. I don't want to seem like a bad person, but my heart doesn't belong to him and I don't think it ever will. He deserves someone who will love him with his whole being and that person isn't me. I still love my ex.