If he rejected you but still likes your Instagram, this means that at that time he probably was not ready for something serious and he still wants to keep his options open.
A guy rejecting you does not mean that he does not like you. He may like you, but because he has someone else he is with or is planning to be with, he may have rejected you or said no to you at that point.
The fact that he still likes your Instagram means there is still something attached and he does not want to let go completely. It is a sign that he is still keeping his options open.
Here are 10 interesting reasons why he rejected you but still likes your Instagram
Yes, it is true that he may have rejected you because he is not ready for something serious. That may not be the only reason why. There are other reasons which I will share in this segment of this article.
It is good you read closely so that you will know exactly what the situation is if you happen to experience a guy rejecting you and still liking your Instagram posts, you will also be able to know how to handle situations like that.
Take a look at the following:
- He is trying to keep his options open.
- He has a girl already.
- He may have just liked the picture itself.
- He was not ready at that time.
- Maybe he got bored and randomly liked your Instagram.
- He could be programming you to be his backup plan if he leaves his current girlfriend.
- He may have liked it without knowing – because he has been scrolling and double-tapping continuously.
- He may be keeping close tabs because he might change his mind.
- Maybe he likes how you look and wants to flirt with you.
- He may have rejected you, but he likes what you do on Instagram.
He is trying to keep his options open
This is common among guys who have a lot of girls who want to be their girlfriends. Because he has a lot of girls who want to be his girlfriend, he may reject you and still have eyes on you thereby keeping his options open to other girls.
He doesn’t want to make it official with you so that if another lady he likes comes along, he can still be with her.
So he will be liking your posts, and as long as you keep noticing it, it will give you the impression that he is still open to you. Guys like this may be keeping you as a reserve option in case his plans with other girls do not work as planned.
He does not fully trust your togetherness; he may not really know you too well, so what he does is resort to keeping his options open.
He has a girlfriend already
When a guy rejects you, it is possible that he has a girlfriend already. But how do you explain him rejecting you but still liking your Instagram?
He might have a girl already but liked your Instagram because he liked the picture naturally. Nothing has to be attached to it at all.
And he may not be doing it because he wants you back, most especially if he is already in a relationship with a girl and that relationship is a serious one that would most likely lead to something positive.
If that guy already has a girl he wants to go deep with, he would reject you because he does not want you to come in the way of his serious relationship.
His rejecting you does not mean that he will block you on social media. Even though he has rejected you, it does not stop him from genuinely liking your Instagram posts.
He may have just liked something about the picture itself
Ladies are usually known for taking beautiful pictures and posting them on Instagram. In fact, the whole of Instagram is filled with a lot of beautiful pictures of women.
Even though he rejected you, if you happen to post a picture that is so beautiful, he may not be able to resist the urge to like the picture, so he will go ahead and like the picture.
Do not look at the fact that he has rejected you before and he still likes your Instagram. There is something about the picture that made him double tap or hit that like button.
It may not be just because he rejected you. Something similar happened to me when I was scrolling through the social media explore page and came across several beautiful pictures, and I found myself liking them without even realizing it.
What attracted me was how beautiful the picture was.
He was not ready at that time
When a guy rejects you, it may be that he was not ready at that time and not that he had someone else already. Guys too love to take their time before going into a serious relationship.
If you discover that even after being rejected, he still likes your Instagram, then know that he did not mean anything bad at all.
He was just not ready at that point in time to be in a relationship with you, and he also did not see anything wrong with liking your Instagram, especially if he genuinely likes it.
There is nothing wrong if the guy rejects you and he still goes ahead to like your pictures on Instagram. The picture must have been too good to be ignored.
Maybe he got bored and randomly liked your Instagram
After a long day of work, he may just take his phone to go through his Instagram and to know what is trending or what is happening at the moment, then he stumbled on your picture and randomly liked the picture.
The funny thing about this reason is that he might have done it without even knowing. This happens to me as well. I may be scrolling through Instagram and randomly like a photo that caught my attention.
I may even go back and wonder when I liked that picture. It happens a lot, so do not think it is that deep. It may have just been out of boredom, just like I have explained here.
He could be programming you to be his backup plan if he leaves his current girlfriend
He only rejected you because he has someone who he may be planning to leave soon, and because he does not want to totally let go of you as well, he will keep liking your Instagram so that it will seem as if he has you in mind.
What he is really doing is that he is just preparing you to be his backup plan in case he leaves his current girlfriend.
This is not a good thing at all, so you should be wary of guys like this who do not have good intentions for you.
He may have liked it without knowing
A lot of people scroll through social media randomly without paying close attention to the picture they are liking and double tapping on Instagram.
It is possible that he may not even know that he liked the picture unless he figures it out himself.
Even if he has rejected you, because you guys follow each other on social media and the posts will keep showing up on his feed alongside other posts, there is every possibility that he may have liked your Instagram without even knowing it. Do not think it is that deep.
He may be keeping close tabs because he might change his mind
At the time he rejected you, maybe he did not know so much about you and he was not sure if he should accept you or not. For him to be on the safe side, he decided to reject you in order for him to not regret his decision.
But he still sees your Instagram and likes your posts because he wants to keep close tabs with you to know if what he actually thought about you was true and if he would eventually end up changing his mind.
For him to have you in mind to the extent of changing his mind, means that he probably has a thing for you and still considers you to be someone he can be in a relationship with.
If he changes his mind, it might not be a bad thing after all. He was probably watching closely, and if he eventually loves what he sees and if he loves your personality in general, he will go ahead and make the move towards you.
He must have changed his mind because you convinced him that you are actually worth it. He will go from rejecting you to accepting you back into his life.
Maybe he likes how you look and he wants to flirt
The truth is that some guys actually flirt. He may have rejected you because he is flirting with someone else.
He may have had the intention of flirting with you when he is done with the person that he is with.
Guys like this do not always have good intentions towards you, so what you can do is be on the watch.
He just likes how you look and he sees you as someone he wants to flirt with, so he will keep liking your Instagram so that you will think he has a thing for you, while what he actually wants is to flirt with you.
When he is done with the current person he is flirting with, he may come over to you because he has been keeping tabs on you by liking your Instagram.
He may have rejected you, but he likes what you do on Instagram
If a guy rejects you, it does not mean that he rejects everything about you. He might have rejected being in a relationship because he has someone he is in a serious relationship with.
He does not want to cheat, so he has to be honest. Yes, he must have rejected you, which is already established, but he enjoys what you do on Instagram.
Maybe you are a content creator that posts valuable content on Instagram and he likes it so much that he will definitely like your posts when he sees them on Instagram as long as your posts keep showing on his feed. This is a common thing among guys.
You may like what someone does on Instagram, but you may not be close enough to be friends with the person.
Just because you like what the person does or you like the kind of posts the person puts on Instagram, you will be compelled to like the person’s posts on Instagram each time you come across them.
Conclusion
When a guy rejects you, do not think it is the end. Just like I mentioned earlier in this article, maybe he is not ready for something serious with you.
Who knows, he could possibly have an interest later on if he decides that he wants to be with you, probably after his doubts have been cleared.
As long as he is still liking your Instagram posts, it means he is still keeping close tabs in case he changes his mind, or he could just be doing that because he genuinely likes what you post on Instagram.
Some guys like Instagram posts without even knowing. This could be another reason. You should also watch out for those guys who are flirty and see you as someone they would like to flirt with.
You may believe that his liking your Instagram post indicates that he has good intentions, but this is not always the case.
He could also reject you if he has a girlfriend already, especially if it is a serious relationship with a girl.
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