I have a boyfriend but this guy keeps trying to date me anyway?

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I have this childhood friend who I talk to on Facebook often. He's really fun to talk to and I enjoy catching up with him every now and then.

His messages started getting flirty right around the time I started dating a guy I really really liked, so I would either ignore his flirting and keep the conversation as platonic as possible or just stop responding altogether. He knows that I have a boyfriend, but he keeps doing things like saying I should model and offering to bring food to my house and complimenting me left and right. He even asks about my boyfriend sometimes. It's just weird. This has been going on for two years (yes, I'm still with that boyfriend), but I just did my ignore/don't reply thing and didn't worry about it.

Yesterday, he texted me asking if I would go see a movie with him and another mutual friend I had known as a child. I thought it'd be fun to reconnect with that other childhood friend as well, and I felt safe hanging out in a group situation, so I agreed. About 15 minutes before we were supposed to meet up, he said the other friend didn't feel well and wasn't coming. I thought it was suspicious but it was too last minute for me to create a believable excuse, so I just sucked it up and went anyway.

I show up and he's already bought my movie ticket. That was a red flag for me so I insisted on buying him candy to even it out. The movie itself was fine, nothing weird happened there. But afterwards, he walked me to my car (which was really far from where he was parked), gave me a slightly too long hug, and said we should do it again sometime.

I feel like I was tricked into a date or something. So many mixed signals. I really like hanging out with him and I would totally do it again if he would stop pursuing me and just accept being friends. I've already decided to not accept anymore invitations to hang out because it's getting too weird and it could get messy very easily.

How should I handle this? Should I be up front with him and tell him that I have no intention of leaving my boyfriend any time soon? Should I just stop talking to him, or at least not as frequently?

Thanks
I feel like he's just waiting for me to break up with my boyfriend so he can swoop in, which is so not going to happen any time soon. I can't believe he's been waiting for that for two years. Hngggg help.

[Betty]

I'm sorry but this guy sounds a real creep.
You need to be firm with him and tell him you have no plan for leaving your boyfriend in the near future...infact tell him you might never leave him because you love him so much.
Tell him you are happy to have him as a friend,but nothing will ever happen between you.
Creeps like this need to be told or they will forever be hanging on to you.