u/Worth-Heat7977

I (F21) am currently seeing a guy (M23) that I met on hinge.

He’s super nice and we have a lot of hobbies and interests in common, it’s nearly 1-1 and perfect on paper. I’ve never online dated before this and kind of messed up by not knowing what to look for in a profile, so our first meeting was a little bit of a shock to me bc he didn’t look like his pics.

The first date was awkward conversationally, I felt like I had to carry the convo and it never got anywhere deep. We mainly talked about games and shows. We called last night and the lack of convo flow persisted. Maybe he’s nervous or that’s just how he is?

But aside from that, he was super nice, reloaded his card hella at the arcade and paid for the date. he told me he’d give me his friends’ figures bc he knows I like the character, and he planned a date where he said he’d buy me clothes and already bought me a pricy gift for when we meet next. All at his insistence.

I already told him I want to get to know him more first bc I don’t want it to seem like im taking advantage of him, so please no more gifts. but he says he wants to. I liked him but this is now making me anxious and makes it hard for me to not feel bad bc we only met one time and I need time to see if I like him as a person to even keep going out with him. I feel guilty if I end up not wanting to continue because of the money he spent on me

Has anyone else dealt with this? Or can give me some perspective bc I’ve never been with someone so keen on gift giving this early on

Edit since some are misunderstanding the friend part: he asked his friend if it was ok to give some figures from their collection to me bc it was a character I like. I definitely thought it was weird to give away parts of his friend’s collection but the friend did say yes since those figures were at his house