A man who truly loves you will ask you to be his girlfriend or wife, seeking exclusivity and commitment. He does this because he's afraid of losing you to someone else. This happens more often when you're perceived as high-value and maintain clear boundaries.
The next thing a man will say if he deeply cares about you is, I want you to be my girlfriend, or I want you to be my wife. When a man deeply cares about you and has deep emotional attachment for you, he's going to make sure that you become his. He's going to become exclusive with you. He's going to want to make a decision, which means to cut off other options and choose you, because he wants you to do that for him as well. He wants you to be the only woman in his life and he wants to be the only man in your life. He's going to ask for that commitment and that exclusivity at some point if he truly deeply cares about you. Because if he did really care about you, why would he ever want to risk losing you to another man? Why would he put— why would he take that risk unless he knows that you would never leave him because even if he's not giving what you want because you value him so much and you value yourself so little, that's a different situation. But if he feels like he respects you, that you're a high-value woman, that you maintain your value, you set boundaries when needed, he's going to ask for that level of commitment because he's gonna make sure that he doesn't lose that potential future with you.
