Guy I've been dating for a bit brought up meeting his family recently and I told him I would be down for that. Then just a few minutes later was talking about his friends and mentioned that he tried to get with one of them but she wasn't interested and was out of his league anyway. I don't really think he was intentionally trying to be hurtful to me but that really rubbed me the wrong way and got me thinking that maybe he is just settling. I didn't say anything at the time.

Later over text he was expressing that he was excited to see where this goes and I said I was too, but mentioned what he had said earlier about his friend and questioned if he feels like he's settling with me. Instead of denying that, he said something like "you're not conventionally perfect, but you're a good match." Is this a low key neg? He also said settling wasn't bad and he's fine with mediocre. I don't know, I don't really want to do relationship stuff with someone who finds me mediocre. I kept looking for him to say something sweet but he kind of doubled down on the whole sentiment when I asked him to explain. Kind of a bummer. The thing is, I know I'm not conventionally perfect, so I don't even know what I'm wanting him to say.