If he does not claim you, he does not want you. Either he doesn't want you or he does not have what it takes to claim you. If a man is tentative about it then he is not the man for you. Now, we often do not consider seriously enough the matters of the heart. A call to love to another human being is a very sacred experience. The heart of a human being is to be held in a holy space, and if we treat it as such, there will be far less pain involved.