Dear Sarasa:

You are welcome, good to read back from you.

“I don’t understand him”, you wrote. Maybe he is very shy and is very afraid of rejection, so he needs to make sure a woman will not reject him if he approach her for a romantic relationship, and only when he feels sure that she will not reject him- then he feels comfortable enough to suggest a romantic relationship.

When he asked you if you treat others like you treat him- that could have been his way of (indirectly) asking you: are you interested in me romantically?

Regarding the new girl, “He said he is going to be friends with her for now and see where his future takes him”- his strategy with her may be what his strategy with you has been all along: be friends for now, and see where the future takes him. Maybe with the new girl, he will also look to make sure that she will not reject him before he suggests a romantic relationship with her.

anita