<human>: Hi reddit. This one will take a little bit of background (first post on /r/relationships but I'll do my best).

I met this guy just over a month ago. I'm female, 17 and he's male, French, 27. The age gap came as a surprise to both of us, as he though me older and I thought him younger. We're both okay with it.

He approached me out of the blue in a coffee shop at the mall where I was before work and asked to sit with me. He started asking lots of questions and was very friendly and approachable. I agreed to meet him after my shift for another coffee, he was easy to get on with and seemed interested.

Since that point we met for coffee a lot and even went out in the evening a couple of times together. He's been texting me, everything seemed positive but then he got very busy with work.

While I've made an effort to make other plans, he continues to be very busy and I've only seen him once in the past few weeks. He tells me that he does really want to spend time with me; at one point I did ask him if I had the wrong idea about the two of us and he insisted he was just busy, not that he'd lost interest. Still, he won't make solid plans with me.

I guess what I'm asking is whether you guys think it's worth putting effort into. I feel that even if he *was* just looking for sex (16 is the age of consent where I live), that he'd be making some more effort. I've been trying to make plans, and I'm genuinely interested in this guy. And from everything he's said, he still fancies me!

Is there anything I can do to make it work, or should I just leave it for him to chase me for a while? Should I do anything differently? Help!

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<bot>: 10 year age gap, we're both really into each other, but he's keeps saying he's busy and won't make plans with me.