<human>: I am kind of an awkward person, I have a lot of social anxiety so making friends is difficult for me. I also feel like I can be somewhat oblivious. I have a boyfriend of 2 years and I've been looking for new friends so I've been attending a lot of groups on meetup.com. I'm open to male or female friends I just feel like I need to be cautious with guys because it's hard to tell if they want plantonic friends or if they're looking for a date.....however I don't want to close myself off to cool people that would be fun to hang out with! 

I met a guy through one of these meetup.com events and we hit it off, I was talking to him the whole time and he was really cool and fun to talk to. He sent me a message the next day asking for my number and said we should hang out. I didn't respond for a few days because I thought he was looking for a date and I told my boyfriend about it and he was like ehhh it's creepy and later "now I know why not that many women use meetup." I trusted my boyfriend's judgment at first but then I finally gave him my number and we started texting a bit.

He said we should hang out this week, I was about to set up a plan to do something but I was not sure what his intentions were so I sent him a text saying I have a boyfriend, I just want to be friends, we should do something in a group with my friends. He seemed taken aback and said he is just looking for friends too and he didn't mean to make me uncomfortable. I felt kind of bad but I didn't understand how to ask him what he wanted so there was kind of an awkward moment there?? Anyways we now have plans to do something with a couple other people and my boyfriend will probably come as well so it seems to have worked out.

I just don't know if I handled this properly and in the future I don't know how to make male friends. Am I full of myself for assuming that some guys I meet might be looking for a date and not friendship?? It seems pretty reasonable to me

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<bot>: I have a boyfriend, I want to make new friends male or female, and I don't know if I handled this situation right when I assumed this guy might be looking for a date and he wasn't