You may not necessarily be just a friend to this guy.

Although the word “homegirl” is normally used for a person that one truly considers a trusted and loyal friend to the end, your case may be different.

Being that you met this guy on an online dating site and the both of you get along great and text each other all day every day, calling you “homegirl” may be a way for him to play it safe with you for now.

In other words, he may not quite know where his relationship with you is headed.

There may be moments during his texting conversations with you where he feels as though his interaction with you may be headed towards romance and other moments where he just isn’t sure.

Now that the both of you have been texting each other all day every day for a while and getting along great, he may feel that it would be safer to call you “homegirl” instead of a more romantic term.

This way, he doesn’t overstep his boundaries.

Again, this guy that you met on an online dating site may simply not be entirely sure about how you feel about him.

He may wonder whether you only look at him as just a friend.

Hence, being that he doesn’t quite know where to place this relationship, he is keeping it safe and not trying to cause any stress, thereby calling you “homegirl” and nothing more romantic in nature.

You will be able to tell if you are dealing with a guy who simply isn’t sure of the kind of relationship that he has with you through some of his texts.

Some of his texts may actually give away clues as to what he is thinking.

If you have noticed that every now and then during some of your texting conversations with him, he throws out a flirtatious comment, this is something significant.

He may make flirtatious comments here and there to see how you respond to them.

If you don’t typically respond to them or you seem lackadaisical in how you respond to them, he may tell himself that you may be more so looking at him as just a friend.

Every time he sends out a flirtatious text and he doesn’t get the kind of response that he was hoping to get from you, he may feel that much more that you only regard him as just a friend and nothing more.

Hence, he may start calling you “homegirl” because he doesn’t want to make the mistake of believing that there will be any kind of romance coming out of this relationship.

After all, the both of you get along great and thereby calling you “homegirl” may not seem inappropriate.

In a way, by calling you “homegirl,” he is protecting his heart and emotions from possible disappointment.

Try to look back on the texting conversations that you have had with this guy that you met on an online dating site.

If you notice that there have been moments where he has sent lighthearted flirtatious texts and you didn’t really respond to them or you responded in a lackadaisical manner, those may have been the moments where he was trying to gauge romantic interest.

If you haven’t noticed any moments like this in your text conversations, he may see you as just a friend.

One of the best ways to confirm whether he is calling you “homegirl” because he sees you as just a friend is by testing him.

During one of your texting exchanges, let him in on a guy who may have been trying to talk to you recently on a romantic level.

This could be another guy from the online dating site or just someone else from your personal life.

If he responds by trying to persuade you not to keep talking to this guy or even consider going out on a date with this guy, there is a good chance that he does like you romantically and not just as a friend.

When a guy becomes this adamant in trying to keep you from talking to some other guy or trying to keep you from going out on a date with that guy, it typically means that he wants you all to himself.

This means that he was most likely calling you “homegirl” all this time just to test you in order to see if he could get you to start responding to him romantically by putting you in a panic.

He may have known that by calling you “homegirl,” you would start wondering if all you are is just a friend to him. However, by turning the tables on him, he has now shown, in this instance, that he does like you romantically.