Yes but I never said it was his responsibility to make that clear, I just said "it would have been nice". Because the staring and all that was going on consistently over a period of almost 2 years. And although you can definitely get attracted to people while being in a relationship, he could have stopped staring at one point? If I was in a relationship and repeatedly making eye contact with another guy and he caught me staring at him so much, I would at one point try hard to not make any eye contact with him to not let him think I'm interested in any way. He also gave me a hug once when I saw him, though I was with a group of people who also know him and I dont know him well at all, but he only hugged me. I know that's not a big deal, I know people would be like "ooooh a hug", but I kind of wondered if he was interested but just shy.

He also once interrupted my conversation while I was talking to another guy to ask if my friend had his shirt (that he left at his house the previous day) and I said umm I don't know, you'd have to ask x (the friend) . And then I messaged my friend to tell him that the guy is asking if he has his shirt and he was like what time did he ask that? He already messaged me yesterday about it and I said I have it. So it kind of felt like he was trying to create conversation when he saw me talking to another guy and this happened twice. Yes I am probably reading into it.

Generally people do post about their relationships, atleast once in a span of two years, so yeah it would have been nice to see that and realize earlier on that he is not single. But I also know it's my fault for not really trying harder to find out sooner. We have some mutual friends but all of them are closer to him than to me, so to ask them if he is single would definitely have gone back to him so I had no choice but to eventually ask him later.