Taking things slow with a single dad?

About two months ago I started talking to a single dad. He’s 25 and I’m 22, he has a 4 year old son. He was with his ex for 6 years but they fell out of love 2 years into the relationship and only stayed together for their son. Anyway, after only talking over text for 2 months I finally took him up on his date offer. We had a great time and he asked me if I wanted to go to the lake with his son the following day.

His son and I hit it off so well and he later told me I was the first women his son has ever met and watching us play together made him so happy and he would have even felt comfortable leaving me with his son to run to the gas station.

Couple days later he invited me over to his apartment because his son was at his moms. We drank and talked about life. He let me sleep in his bed while he slept on the couch. Then he invited me to his friend’s get together where I met all his friends. I did end up staying the night again at his place and this time we slept in the same bed.

Not once have we kissed, cuddled, or held hands. All we have done is hugged once. He told me he wanted to take things slow and that he only wants to have sex if we date. This is all new to me.

As much as I completely understand and respect his choices it just confuses me. Im also not one to take things slow so this is all new to me. I really like this guy and want to pursue a relationship but I just don’t know how this all works. Does anyone have any advice?

He did make it very clear that he eventually wants to pursue a relationship with me and we have these awesome deep and personal conversations so I know he is not just leading me on.