So basically a guy started texting me around the end of 2019/start of 2020. We had already known each other casually from college but were never close until we started talking. He was upfront about his intentions, as 2 weeks into us texting on fb, he said "i'm gonna be honest with you, I'm interested in you in a romantic sense and would like to get to know you better for the purpose of an eventual relationship, I honestly am not talking to you to be your friend i'm not gonna lie" I appreciated his honesty and said why not, i'll give him a chance. I told him "ok we'll get to know each other better and if all goes well, we'll take the next step for sure"
From this point forward, we started getting closer. It seems that he really liked me. I thought he was handsome and believed that with time I would eventually develop a strong interest in him. Over a period of 3 months, we would text every single day, attend some college lectures together and we went on a couple of dates, and we just started getting closer and closer. Anyways after 3 months I never caught feelings for him and decided to end us "seeing" each other. I honestly don't think i was interested in the guy at all, like ever.
When I rejected him as a potential partner and told him that I would rather we stay friends, he didn't take it well I guess. He accused me of leading him on, and his reasoning was that I said some "things" to him that he took as signs of interest on my part. He says that he thought I was into him because I agreed to meet some of his family members including his mom, told him things like "you're my type" and "I treat you in a special way", and went out with him twice and was going on a third date before plans were scrapped. To him, that was me leading him on because he thinks those were signs that I was interested in him, when honestly I was never interested and was just giving him and myself a chance.
He told his story to one of my friends and she says he was correct that I led him on and that I should apologize to him.
Tldr; rejected a male friend, he then accuses me of leading him on because I told him things like "you're my type" "I treat you in a special way", went on dates with him and met some of his family members. He says that I should have rejected him much earlier if I was never at all interested in him, and my friend backs him up.