I'm 21 years old and I have never been in a serious relationship before, I've had experience with guys and been in rinky dink short relationships that barely count. But when I was 18 I met this guy and we've been on and off as 'something' ever since.

I'll start at the beginning. When I was 18 I met him and we spent three months 'hanging out' but as more then friends but not in a relationship. At the time I was naive and figured that we were dating, yeah...I know now looking back on it that him and I were just having a summer fling and we were just sleeping together and I didn't mean much more to him than that. Crap hit the fan and we stopped talking for about a year.

Then on facebook we started talking here and there again. We began to text each other more often, I figured that it was okay and that nothing would happen because he was a state away at school and I was still in our hometown. Well by this time I just turned 20 and it was a new years eve party when my roomie and me needed a ride home and him and I happened to already be texting each other. He picked me up and her up and brought us back to my apartment. My 21 year old roomie was completely trashed and he helped her up the stairs to our place and tucked her in and made sure she was okay. well then that night him and I put in a movie and he stuck around and we ended up fooling around which led to sex. The next day he had to go back up to school (he was in town for xmas break) and we remained texting each other and then he asked me to be his girlfriend. I told him no.

(I said no to him because 1. my roomie hated him and I cared too much of what she thought at the time. 2. he was still a state away and I didn't want to deal with a long distance relationship) I sort of have regretted this in days to come.

A month or two later he ended up dating this girl he went to school with. While dating her he would still talk to me, hang out with me, but we never did anything sexual. We were actually just friends and didn't hang out a whole lot anyway. Their relationship got sort of serious and then he had to go to prison, but not for anything super bad. He went for six months. At that time, my mom was going to jail for a week and came back saying it was awful, so I worried about him. I decided to write him in prison, soon enough I got a letter back from him. He said that it meant a lot to him that I wrote, that he didn't realize that I cared about him that much, that him and his gf are probably moving in together after he gets out, that he'll keep in touch with me and that I've always been a thoughtful person.

Now earlier this year, my age is 21 now, I got an email from him saying "hey, its me. I just wanted to see if you would like to hang out sometime " and from there we started hanging out and he was single again and suddenly we were back to square one. Except things were slightly different this time, he had me around his friends, treated me like his girlfriend and we'd spend time together doing other things other than just sex. He started cuddling with me and talking to me almost daily.

Well, my cousin ended up running into him at a bar one night and completely reemed him out for being in my life. She wasn't okay with the fact that he went to prison and how we have been with each other. She thought I deserved better, but even though I know she did that out of caring about me, I don't judge people by if he has gone to prison or not, because my own parents have been in and out of jail themselves.

So him and me didn't talk for about 7 months until I ran into him one night at a town celebration and at the time I ignored him. The next day I was at a party and he texted me "you didn't even want to say hi.." and I decided to talk to him and he ended up bringing me home that night. We have been talking again and picked up from where we left off, sex, cuddling, but then there is more...I'll list some things that he started doing and I'm not sure what his intentions are.
1. He compliments me all the time
2. He sleeps with me
3. He kisses me
4. He brings me around his friends AND kisses me in front of them
5. He talks on his phone on speaker phone around me (never did that before) and lets whoever know that he's around me
6. We cuddle
7. He spends time with my mom (which is something he used to avoid a lot)
8. He talks to me all the time
9. He does everyday things with me like running errands just to spend time together
10. He makes comments about having a relationship that are quite subtle but at the same time obvious
11. When he picked me up that night I go "thanks friend!" and he goes "Friend? We have never just been friends"
12. He makes it clear that I'm one of the sweetest girls he's ever met and that writing him in prison opened his eyes to the type of girl I am and that he's glad I'm a part of his life

I'm not asking if he likes me, I figure that he does care about me. But, I want to know what his intentions look like. I would have just wrote the list, but I thought it only made sense to give you all the past story since that is why I'm questioning his intentions. Most of my friends hate this guy. some don't. I don't hate him. my mom loves him.