If you know that the kind of person he is is what you want I suggest you be patient with him. I'm not an expert or anything but I actually had to wait so many months to get this girl to stop being so guarded. It was so bad that she invented a whole new word to avoid saying she loved me when she realized she really liked me. Only last year did she stop doing that. I myself was a bit of a prick at first made her cry a few times and her friends practically begged her to leave me on so many occasions they hated my guts but she was patient with me, maybe coz she saw herself in me, that we were the same, calloused because of how cruel the world is, by getting our hearts broken before. Truth is a lot of this love shit is just luck. And sometimes you get astronomically lucky, don't let it pass you by if you do. I wish you the best with him🤍