I (36f) have been dating this guy (38m) since 1,5 months. We have been on more or less 7 dates (bar, restaurant, walk, my place – no sex, only some kissing and touching). The dates were always great, on the last date he even told me "he liked me". We are taking it slowly since he has told me from the beginning he needs lots of time "to get to know someone" and that he only wants to continue with someone if he is 100% sure it will work in the future. He has always taken the initiative to schedule a new date (except for the last one that should happen next Thursday, I have taken the initiative for that one).
Although the real live dates are great and the chemistry feels really well, I can't shake off the feeling that he might not be that into me and it's mostly because of his texting pattern. He mostly only texts once a day, it takes him sometimes almost 24h to respond, sometimes longer or he even skips a day. I am not asking to be bombarded by texts, but being left on read for 24 hours makes me question his enthusiasm, especially because we are 7 dates in.
The last days have been making me doubt the situation even more. We saw each other last Thursday, we had a very nice evening and sent some cute texts before going to bed. Next day, I text him at 16pm. He only gets back to me on Saturday at 12h noon. I respond at 23h pm the same day. I don't hear from him. So Sunday evening I double text, and ask for a new date to which he agrees. Monday (yesterday) was the first day he actually texted me multiple times because we were both enthusiastic about a food experiment that we are doing these 2 days, he still texted me yesterday evening, to which I responded yesterday evening, and I double texted this morning, but more than 10h have gone by, and still no response. It feels really weird since we agreed to share the experiment's results by now.
I really have the feeling that I might be more into him than he is into me at this moment. Or am I too anxious and overthinking? How important is texting by the 7th date?