Alright, so, this just happened. Last night, my roommate/“friend” who is male texted me “Love you Goodnight” and I thought nothing about it and replied with “Love you too bud Goodnight” and he responded the next day with “I’ll stop saying I love you since it makes you uncomfortable” and tbh it does because I don’t just say that to anyone. We’ve been living together since last March and since then he’s tried being my friend but with all the issues because of him confessing his love to me (I’m male too but he’s gay) and I shut him down on numerous occasions because I wasn’t comfortable. Like, I support LGBT but knowing that my own roommate regardless of gender or sexual orientation that I’m 10000% not interested in had said that, I just told him that I’m not into him. The entire time we’ve been living together, I just didn’t click with his vibe. We have common interests but he’s just very negative about a lot of things about himself which makes me feel bad. Not to mention he is skeptical of every guy I meet because I used to experiment with them during our friendship and excluded him. Once that was over, the assumptions never stopped. Thinking I sneak out or are talking to guys nearby like we are dating. It’s been driving me nuts. I’m only pointing out the negative things he does. He helps me with my pets, pays rent, buys gifts on holidays and cooks sometimes too. He gives me advice on my parents and relationships but when it comes to men or friendship, that’s what bothers him the most. I am very friendly with new people and he always points it out when we come back home. I’m usually all in the huggy mood with women and, because he keeps assuming I’m sleeping with any guy within a 10 mile radius, I avoid them like the plague or shut down my emotions when talking to them so he doesn’t think I’m seeing them on the side(which I’m not)ANYWAY, getting back to the I love you thing. He brought it up like an hour ago at work. “You didn’t even answer my text” and I said “Oh the “Love you thing?” Yeah, you can stop” and he just said “okay. Another thing to add to my list”. Every few minutes after that he’d mumble something like “Guess that’s another thing you’re lying about” (I kept the sexual life from him which was one of the things I lied about because it wasn’t his business) but I just kept to myself and pretended I didn’t hear it. COINCIDENTALLY, A coworker was on the phone with a guy friend and he was closing the conversation as he walked past our office to which he said “Aii Love you bo” and that triggered my friend to scoff. I’ve never said “I love you” to any of my guy friends. EVER. And It was just unorthodox to me. He left to talk to a coworker nonchalantly to see what they’d say about the situation and now it’s my turn. What do you guys think? Am I the asshole for putting him in a separate category as far as affection goes?