Is starting out as friends normal?

So me and the guy I am dating has decided that we will see where this relationship goes and so far we treat each other mostly as friends. We rarely hang out since we are both really busy and our free time does not align. When it does, he prefers to spend it by himself and I am totally fine with that since I want to be able to hang out with my friends on my free time too.

We recently planned to just end the relationship because it does not seem to work out. But now we are reconsidering taking this relationship another chance mostly because I feel like I still want to see where this goes and I still like him and we’ve only known each other for 3 months.

Now I realize we just treat each other as close friends. I feel comfortable sharing things with him about some personal stuff and he also shares stuff with me. We only text when we can and that is when we get off work or during breaks. This is the first time I got to date someone like this but even though it feels foreign to me, I still find this comfortable and I still like him for giving me the space.