How do I ask whether we're exclusive when he thinks I already know?
Relationships"I thought that was obvious," he said when I asked whether we were still going on dates with other people. We'd been seeing each other for seven weeks. He'd met two of my friends, left a jumper at my flat and started saying "next time" when we passed restaurants.
I had taken all that as promising, but not as an agreement. At the beginning, he'd said he liked taking things slowly, so I hadn't brought it up again. Now he says he hasn't seen anyone else since our second date and is hurt that I thought he might have. I haven't either.
I was pleased by the answer until the conversation turned into me explaining why I hadn't trusted the clues. I don't want to pretend I knew something we never said, and I don't want a simple question to sound like an accusation. How would you return to this conversation? We seem to want the same thing; we just disagree about whether asking for it was necessary.