When you said you didn't want a typical 'relationship' I thought you were talking in general terms, not just with this guy.
I read all this as:
On a scale of 1 to 10, he's "into you" like a 6. He accepts this relationship because it fulfills his needs, but wants to be unencumbered in case an 8 or 9 comes along. You're into him like a 7. He tweaks a few of the things you need and if he was into you like an 8, this would be an Official long term relationship with the kisses and the sex and the phone calls to say why you were late, and the Rules.
The Rules seem like restrictions for people who are a 6 or 7 into each other; for people who are a 9 into each other, they are signs of commitment and caring. For a guy who's a 6 into someone, he doesn't want ANY of those Rules; they're a horror.
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