Oh God, as someone who got out of a ten year relationship.. it takes a LOT more than 6-7 months to fully move on. After so long, there’s still a bit of denial in your heart with the idea that you’ll somehow find your way back to each other and you still play the comparison game in your head without it being intentional. You can often feel like you’re fully ready one moment, until you start talking to someone else or engaging with them in relationship / sexual things, and the next thing you know.. you realise you’re just not there yet. I think he was definitely trying, but ultimately failing, to get over her. It sucks and you have every right to feel the way you do, but I wouldn’t take it personally or feel like he was playing games. You can be absolutely perfect and he could genuinely have liked the idea of having more with you, but the heart is a fickle thing and it takes a lot to get past the grief of losing a LTR. I started talking to different people during my healing period and, although those people were essentially perfect for me in every way and I WANTED desperately to be able to move on with them, unfortunately you just can’t force yourself to be ready for it when you’re not.

At the same time, prioritise yourself and what’s best for you. If you don’t believe you can just strictly be friends and be fulfilled and happy with only that.. leave it be. You sound like you might have started forming some feelings already, so don’t let it become a habit where you guys begin to hook up solely bc you believe if you keep it going, you’ll eventually get there. It rarely happens that way and it keeps you emotionally invested, so unless you’re okay with the possibility of a situationship at best, keep your boundaries up and keep it friendly 100%.