Sad Leo

My Leo guy and I have had limited communication these week. Me initicating it.
I haven't seen him in two weeks. He wants to take things slow. The anniversary of his 1yr divorce is coming up. Things with us happened really fast, he said he wants to take a step back for now.
I saw a pic of him with his guy friends on FB and he looked sad, just a half smile for the camera.
What do I do?
Contact him? Not Contact him?

I am pretty sure its a hodge podge of his anniversary of his divorce, things coming out of no-where with us. I just don't want to over-whelm him.
Thank you for responding. 🙂

He said he didn't want me to be fall off the radar and go quiet, but that is what he has done.
So I don't understand...?

Thank you so much. He was married for 7 years, and his wife at the time broke the Leo/everyone cardnial rule. She cheated on him. I don't know how much dating he has done but he and I have been long time friends. A few weekss ago, all he said was that he couldn't be in a relationship right now. That he had to get some things straight. I think having a good time with me only confused things. Which I didn't mean to. When we last saw each other, he seemed to be fighting in his own head. Saying he wasn't sure if he was making a mistake, things just moved to quick. And that if he came back I could tell him to leave. I didnt know what sense to make of it at the time. And after the chat I texted him and we would chat, then he texted me and we texted for an hour. That was two weeks ago. Now, no contact from him.
So I have been sending a little funny pic here and there. He will respond quickly but only like a sentnce. I have been trying to give him space.

How do they have it easy—

I'm a Leo and have several leo men as friends. We need to regroup sometimes. We take relationships seriously when we do commit. It's been 20yrs since my first bf my first puppy love and til this day I feel some regret over it. So for him being married and they been divorce for a yr there's regret maybe not like I want her back but we hate failure PERIOD.

Go missing or send hm a text and say just thinks bout you and leave it alone. He'll come back but we need space sometimes to thnk about life. When we get confused we have to think on the subject back and forth up and down. Just chill out for awhile.

Thank you LEOGIRL727....

I am on the fence about contacting or leaving him alone.
How do I know which is best to do?
I have contacted him twice last week. Once last sunday and then on Wed. It was light and funny, nothing heavy. He did respond but with very short answers.
I trust you judgement...

Leave him a nice msg. Loving one. a few words would suffice. Maybe like : "you make me happy"
Im no leo, but thats just a general thing tht would uplift any person. A man esp.
Leave tht text n be gone.

In all honesty he may be seeing someone else too. I've done this especially if im liking someone else I will fall back from the last person. Idk the specifics of you'll relationship so I can't say but I had fwb with my leo friend off and on for yrs. we're still friends today but nothing more but I have a tendacy to get ghost when I like someone and right now I haven't talk to my friend for 4 months because I was in a relationship and when I did reach out he gave me shit about it. Thing is every leo I know does this and then will feel bad like damn how come so and so stop talking to me!

It's not right or fair but we sometimes don't think we're being selfish until someone says something. So at this point I would be like hey....are you talking to someone else? Or just be truthful and say you know I have feelings for you and you're acting weird and distance. Either way he's going to have to give you an answer. If all else fails IGNORE. We hate that more than anything but when he does call you will have to hear shit about that. Good luck!

Thank you...
About two weeks ago he said he wanted to take a step back, a relationship is just too fast for me right now. I have barely gotten my house in order and feel like I need to be happy and comforatble in my own skin. I may appear happy with myself but I still need a lot of work".
Since then it's be very splotchy contact.
Thanks for your input.
Still on the fence as to what to do ?...

Just send a text and say I'm here if u need me. Since u say he doesn't want a relationship maybe all he need is a friend right now. If u can handle that be his friend but don't let him use u by all means. I would do me tho and maybe it will turn around in your favor.

Thanks.
I will try to keep some contact with giving him his space.
Like walking a balance beam.

I know for myself when there is a lot of emotions running at once, I have to take time for myself to think to renew. If the emotions are sad ones that is when I retreat. I don't like to burden anybody with my sadness or any negative emotions so I find it being alone is best. People who know me the longest who truly love me for me respect it and trust in our relationship enough to just let me be and know I will come back smiling, laughing as if nothing had happened. I say let him know through text you care and you are there for him and just let him have his time alone.

Thank you LionessKitty..

I do understand he needs his alone time. He hasn't posted anything on FB and is just starting to again. Maybe its a sign that he is peeking out of his shell.

What would you text him?

I agree with what a lot of people are saying on here. Yes it's ok to shoot him a text message from time to time to let him know that you still care, but I definitely don't think you should sit around waiting on him. Do your own thing and date other men. I would honestly stop texting him for a while. If he really care about you, he'll come back around. He just need space like he said, so just give him that. But I think you should definitely kinda move on with your life and not contact him for a while. I'm sure he'll wonder how you're doing and come back around. Good luck hun! 🙂