Okay so here's the problem chums.

There is this guy I like. He has a bit of a reputation around where I live. He had a girlfriend who he had a baby with, but couldn't stay in a relationship with her. She's been going round saying I will regret it if I try anything with him because she doesn't want him to be happy ever again, which probably means she wants to beat me up. I'm also friends with another one of his ex's who says he's; unsociable, grumpy and easily angered.

I don't think you should judge someone on their past, so none of that really bothers me. What bothers me is things that have happened since we've been talking. When we talk on Fb chat sometimes he will just decide not to reply to my messages. He never says when he has to go or if he's going any where, he just vanishes and leaves me sitting at my computer waiting for him to reply and lastly he keeps saying "I'll come pick you up tomorrow sometime so you can spend the day at my house." but then when tomorrow comes he just doesn't come.

I've confronted him about the not responding on fb chat thing and he says excuses like "I was busy" or "It was too hot to type" He says he likes me but he makes no effort to actually talk to or see me. Although he does do some little things that make me smile. He's a truck driver so he travels a lot and last time he came at 4am back after driving for 5 days and went onto fb just to send me a message to say he was home safe.

Does he actually like me?

I've already asked my female friends but their replies were some what useless.