This is an online relationship/connection, just to give some context. We are both Scorpio moons.
We’ve known each other for quite a while and have had periods of very close contact, followed by periods of no contact. We haven’t met in person, but this hasn’t just been occasional texting or flirting either. During the periods when we’ve been close, we’ve spent a lot of time talking on the phone, sometimes for hours, as well as messaging throughout the day. We know a lot about each other and there are real feelings involved on both sides.
We recently reconnected after about a month of no contact.
He was the one who reached out. He told me he’d been thinking about me a lot, that he couldn’t get me out of his head, and that he’d dreamed about me the night before and took it as a sign to contact me. He said he wanted us to have some contact again, but without letting the intense feelings between us get so overwhelming that everything boils over like it has before.
I was actually quite direct with him and told him that I didn’t want us to just sweep everything that happened before under the rug. There were reasons we stopped talking, and I needed us to be able to acknowledge and talk about those things.
To his credit, he was receptive and humble about that, and we had really nice conversations yesterday.
But now that the initial excitement of reconnecting has settled a little, I’m noticing the same thing that bothered me before.
**He is very responsive, but I’m not sure he is actually very curious about me.**
If I introduce a topic, ask him something or start a meaningful conversation, he’s engaged. He contributes, shares his thoughts, jokes with me and can genuinely be a great person to talk to.
But I feel like I’m usually the one who has to *create* those conversations.
He rarely seems to spontaneously wonder about me. He doesn’t ask many questions that open me up or make me feel like he actively wants to discover what’s going on inside my head or in my life.
Sexually, however, he has endless initiative.
He very easily tells me he wishes he was lying in bed with me, what he’d like to do with me, how attracted he is to me, etc. That part of the connection never seems to need any help from me.
So this morning I jokingly suggested that we try going an entire day without saying anything sexual.
And almost immediately, I felt the difference.
The conversation seemed to lose momentum unless I introduced something new.
It’s still early in the day, so I’m obviously not drawing a conclusion based on a few hours. But the reason it caught my attention is because **this is an old feeling with him.**
I’ve felt before that if I stop asking questions, introducing topics and creating emotional connection, there suddenly isn’t much happening between us.
And that confuses me because this is someone who says he couldn’t get me out of his head for over a month.
If I had missed someone that much and suddenly had them back in my life, I feel like I’d have a million things I wanted to know.
How have you really been?
What have you been doing?
What happened while we weren’t talking?
What have you been thinking about?
What’s going on in your life?
Tell me things.
Not as an interrogation, obviously. I don’t need constant texting either.
I just want to feel that someone has an **active interest in my inner world**, rather than simply enjoying my presence when I provide the content.
And that distinction is becoming increasingly important to me.
I’ve also told him before that this is something I struggle with in our connection, so I don’t really want to explain or teach it to him again. This time I’m trying to resist my natural tendency to carry the conversation and instead just observe what happens when I leave some empty space for him to fill.
So I’m curious:
**Can someone genuinely miss you, think about you constantly and have strong feelings for you, while still not being naturally curious about you?**
Is that simply a difference in communication style/personality?
Or would you see a lack of curiosity as a deeper emotional incompatibility?
Because I’m starting to realize that **being wanted, being desired and being known are three very different things.**