He has me a little confused

Well after many months after a break up, I finally feel stable and good enough to move on and open up (but I didn’t go searching)

A guy hit me up and right off the bat he’s a green flag, we had great conversations and he asked “once we get to know each other more, could we meet” and of course I said yes because from there I enjoyed his conversations and personality. After almost a month of daily talking which never got dry or boring we finally met and there we both saw we had such good chemistry and a great physical attraction as well, he’s very respectful and polite.

The week after (yesterday) we go on another date and it’s just as good if not better. We simply give off couple vibes with the affection and chemistry we have (even a shopkeeper mistook him for a boyfriend). But the day before I’d gotten pretty drunk and sent him a fun voice note where I simply dropped that I really like him and when we met he was urging me to open and relisten to it. I did and giggled and asked what was so shocking because it’s very clear I do. However simply saying I like him (which he knew before because we’d said it beforehand and shown it very clearly) didn’t seem like the worst thing to say. When i asked him about how he felt he didn’t overly give me the most clear answer, it wasn’t an “i’m really unsure so maybe not” kind of answer but “it’s hard to put into words right now”. This was right before we went our separate ways home. I didn’t think much of it because i know it’s a lot of pressure especially saying it to my face but as soon as I got on my train he sent me a load of voice notes for not saying it clearly and he didn’t want me to think he just brushed off my feelings (which i didn’t because it’s understandable).

I assured him i didn’t think he hated me or anything and I understood it’s hard to formulate feelings into words easily. Also it’s our second date so I just made what I meant clearer and told him how I really like him as in his personality and the attraction and time we spend together and he said “that’s pretty much how i feel too”.

Afterwards we dropped the conversation and went straight back to our talkative ways and luckily it didn’t mess anything up. I don’t need a relationship with him because as it is, I love the time we spend together and how much connection we have already, I just hope he doesn’t feel like he owes me something soon or that i’m expecting him to make a move fully.

I don’t overly want to bring the conversation up out of nowhere again, should I wait for him to ask what this is and what we both want from it or simply (as i was planning to do) go with the flow. This is the first time i’ve ever so slightly overthought anything with him because it’s so easy and natural I really like it, but i feel like it’s always a good thing to set out clearly anyways.