(2/2) try and keep yourself from staking your emotions and opinions of yourself on him okay. it's super easy to get tugged around by engagement w dynamics like that and it's fucking brutal when it goes wrong, i know you don't need a lecture but just try and remember he is just a fucking guy and you are worth far more than a random older man's opinion of you even if it seems positive now. apologies for the additional unwanted advice i just see u from afar and worry. be safe xoxo