Depressed WAW, digging in, learning about myself

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I found the comment from 25yearsmlc on Ahoy's thread:

I am not sure how I'll feel about this next week or month, but If I were in your shoes,

and If my h asked me if I was dating...IN THIS MOMENT,

I MIGHT say one of the following...

1) "no one seriously at the moment;"

2) "I'm not in a committed R YET"...

3) "Yes"....(say not a single additional word, but move on to another topic)

4) "not one particular person"

5) "nothing serious, at this point"...

6) "well of course" (again, not a word should follow)

7) "I'd rather not say right now"/"Not ready to discuss that"/

8) "Do we have to have another R talk now?"

9) "I'm trying Not to date for now..."

10) "Yes I'm dating but it's hard to narrow down to one
(you know that feeling")

FYI I am not suggesting you use any of these^^...I'm just saying, I might...

I definitely should have been more mysterious (my attempt at that was saying "I don't know if I'd tell you if I was"), but I also don't think I should have indirectly/directly said "yes" in some way like a lot of 25yearsmlc's options suggest. I feel like that validates her dating more than the flirty comment I made at the end. Maybe I'm just too afraid of that, though? 25 is a vet yet right now I don't know if I would say any of those, even in hindsight. If any of them, it would be #7 - not even a hint at an answer.

Obviously my mysterious behavior had been successful up to this point. Perhaps I just blew it, but I'm not going to fret over it. Besides, I haven't been GALing to make her think I'm dating. I've been doing it for me. So I'll continue that. Any other feedback on this convo would be appreciated.