Missing the mark?

I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but...I'm really bad at reading people. I'm especially bad at reading guys. I live in the age of sex is all there is to it, but I want the age of romance. But when the guy that I'm interested in talks about finding the one who completes him, I get the idea that he's still looking, and hasn't found her yet. Which would either leave me out of the picture or else he hasn't figured it out yet. Am I jumping to conclusions? I tend to do that sometimes...er, rather, often. I'm still working on the patience issue. I'm just afraid that I'll miss the boat. The comfort for me would be that if I miss the boat, but know I wasn't to be on it anyhow, then it would be ok...