I've been dating a male cancer for a little over two months. When we first met, I was very guarded. After our first meeting, he told me he wanted a relationship with me. I told him I wanted to take things slow. After week one, we've literally spent almost everyday together. I liked him, but was terrified of trying love again. He told me he was too, but that he'd taken a step at trying it and that I should too. He has no friends. He opened up to me about his family and his life. He's overly sensitive and insecure. He's been verbally abused by people in his family, he suffers from the middle child syndrome because he never felt like he could equal up to his older and younger brother. He has a worthless job where his boss takes advantage of him and verbally abuses him, but he refuses to report him. His brothers laugh at him when he tells them he loves them. From what he's told me, the women he's dated have cheated on him and he'd take them back all but to be cheated on again. He's a home body and has never traveled more than 200 miles from home. He's 7 years younger than me. Knowing all of this, my heart went out to him. I've grown to love this man and I've been very open about my feelings for him. In the last month he's been very closed off when discussing "us." He would become shy. At first ge would comment on being upset if I dated someone else and then he started saying he wouldn't since we haven't officially become committed. I think he cares, but it frustrates me. I finally made him tell me how he felt and he admitted that he has not allowed himself to develop deep feelings because of fear of being hurt like he was in his past relationships with prior women. It hurt because I know that I'm genuine and I explained that I've been hurt, but I'm willing to move forward. I'm an Aquarius so this being in a shell is frustrating and now I feel like I've wasted my time, even if it's been almost three months. He admitted that he's basically punishing me for his past girlfriends and that he's working to stop doing that. He also said he sometimes doesn't feel like he's good enough for me and that makes him scared to open up to me in fear that I'll leave him. I don't know what to do because I really like him, but part of me feels like I'm too good of a woman to put up with this. Is this a typical attitude of a Cancer man?
