‘After six months I feel my partner should know if he wants to be in a relationship’

Dear Roe: ‘He says he is still confused about what he is looking for after his divorce’

Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 07:00

Roe McDermott

“Whenever the topic of ‘us’ comes up, he claims to still be confused and not ready for any commitment, and we tend to cool off for a week.” Photograph: iStock

“Whenever the topic of ‘us’ comes up, he claims to still be confused and not ready for any commitment, and we tend to cool off for a week.” Photograph: iStock

Dear Roe,

I’m a 31-year-old woman and I’m in a situation that I thought I’d grown out of since my 20s, but here we are. I’ve been seeing a man for six months. He’s 38 and divorced, and we met on a dating site. After nearly a month of great dates, we had a conversation about where we “saw this going” and he said that he was still confused about what he was looking for after his divorce, and didn’t want to commit to a relationship.

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