Welcome to PC!

There are people I’ve classified as “don’t want you but don’t want anyone else to have you”. Your ‘friend’ is one, I think. He knows you have feelings for him and says he does not have mutual feelings for you, but he acts as though he may...just enough...to keep you around.

He probably didn’t make up the other woman. I find men to rarely ever be that manipulative and creative as to bother. But, it doesn’t matter.

What does matter is YOU allow yourself to be strung along by continuing with false hope that this man will suddenly be what you want, and he won’t.

You know you need to move on and find a grown man who acts like one and who gives you what you need.