Can someone give me some input? I can’t tell if this man is being genuine with me or just stringing me along. We dated for six months. He wasn’t opening up to me, and I didn’t want to open up to someone who wasn’t ready, so long story short we broke up. It was pretty mutual and we didn’t have any hard feelings towards eachother, but I still feel heartbroken over the situation in general, I honestly wanted to marry the guy. The way we left things was very confusing, so I asked him are we just friends? He said he really does like me but he he said yes he feels we should stay friends for now. He also said he is sorry for being confusing and difficult.

I took this response as a lame excuse for not wanting to be straight up and say he doesn’t want to be with me, so I just said okay and planned on not talking to him anymore.

He came back and said that no matter what else happens, he really does want to be friends with me. He said he wanted to work some stuff out with God before he can be in a relationship. Since then he’s opened up to me more about how he’s depressed and trying to overcome it.

I just don’t want to be in the situation of waiting on this guy, pretending I don’t have feelings for him while being his friend, and watching him fall head over heals for someone else. I also don’t want to be in the situation where he strings me along not because he’s serious about me, but because he’s lonely or waiting on a girl who’s better than me. I honestly think we could make good friends, it’s just I don’t want to be hurt. Do you think he wants to keep me in contact for when he is “ready”? Or am I being played?