This is going to be long and probably messy, but I’m gonna do my best. So a few days ago I got a new like on hinge. I was hesitant to accept it because he’s 36 and I just turned 25 last week, but I gave it a chance because he’s cute and his bio intrigued me. I don’t usually go that old.
We exchanged numbers a couple nights ago and started texting and planning a date because it was going well, no red flags yet. We planned sometime next week since I wasn’t feeling good for a few days and needed some rest. Well then he started becoming obsessed with me. He’s now begging me to send him voice notes, he’s begging me to come over to his place for a movie, he even tried everything to convince me to go over to his apartment last night at 2 AM. I said no of course, but then he got upset, which made him even more insistent. Then he randomly called me at 4 AM after I had already told him I was going to sleep. I’m now being as low effort with my replies as possible because I’m feeling extremely nervous about him and I want him to take the hint. We did exchange pics in a moment of weakness the night we started texting (yeah, those pics), so now I feel like I’m too far in to just block him. I’m a younger gay man, I have to protect myself in these cases, but I don’t know how to in this situation.