How do I reject someone that I know I’m gonna keep running into?
Hi everyone, I’m new to posting on Reddit so I hope I’m doing this right.
I (25F) met a guy (24M) and we recently started talking.
Context: Despite my age, I don’t have a lot of experience dating. I’ve always been very shy and it’s honestly never really been a priority of mine. Guess I’m a late bloomer.
Now, one of my hobbies is sewing and there’s a fabric store that I go to all the time. I live in relatively small city so it’s one of two that we have.
The guy that I started talking to works there. It started with casual conversation, then we would start talking more and more every time I would visit the store. These conversations were very surface level though (“how are you”, “how’s work”, “what are you making this time” etc.) and I thought he was cute.
About two weeks ago he decided to give me his number and we started texting. But the thing is I’M SO BORED. The conversations are not engaging at all and they feel one sided. I’m constantly trying to ask him questions to better get to know him and all I get are short answers and nothing back. I’ve looked back at some of our previous conversations and he’s asked me like two questions about myself. And from what I’ve gathered we have nothing in common. But for some reason he still seems interested. He texts me good morning everyday and is always the one to initiate conversation, which is confusing. On top of everything he is religious, Muslim to be specific. Not a dig, people can believe what they wanna believe, it’s their own personal thing. However, I am an atheist. I was raised Christian but deconstructed from the religion as I grew up (please no preachy comments, thank you). We just have nothing in common.
As I said before I really don’t have much experience in talking to people romantically, so I’m really wanting some advice.
I guess my biggest issue is essentially “rejecting” this guy and things being awkward every time I have to go to my favourite fabric store. How do I tell him that I’m not interested without making things awkward? He seems like a sweet guy,just not for me you know.
I know this might seem like a very simple non-issue, but I’m genuinely lost. I guess I need advice on how to reject someone that I know I will constantly run into in the future.
Thanks