This is One of the Reasons Why I'm Glad I'm Asexual.

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Okay, I am friends with this guy who I met about a year ago. We both became buddy-buddies based on the fact that we were (and still are) Roger Bart fans and aspiring thespians. We both live in different states now, and we've hardly ever seen each other except through Facebook.
When I met him, the dude was 21 and engaged to a young woman. However, a couple of months later, I had found that they had broken up (the story was long and complicated, some of it still doesn't make much sense.) I tried to comfort him, saying that everything was going to be okay. He then asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I declined and explained that we barely knew each other, that long-distance relationships don't work out, and that I only wanted to be friends. He agreed to be friends and that was the end of that.
Several more months came and went, and I found out that his new fiancee and his friend had dumped him to run off with each other. I also found out that she, like the girl before her, had left my friend because of his autism. I tried to comfort my friend once more, and we got into this "Will You Be My Girlfriend Even Though We Hardly Know Each Other?" routine.
I hate to rag on people, but I think I see a connection with all of this, don't you?

I'm not sure how your asexuality comes into this besides being one of or the reason you don't want a relationship or to be his girlfriend?

By "connection", I was referring to the relationship trends he goes through and how fast he goes through them.
And the asexual part....I'm basically stating I'm glad to be asexual because this is just one of the many cases I've seen that shows that love tends to have more drama than a soap opera, thus making one wonder why people even want to fall in love anymore.

It's not always about love, romance, or even sex... He's sounds needy, insecure, and there's something more solid sounding about a girlfriend than about friends, who can come and go. A girlfriend represents a kind of security, implies approval, and represents something to others along those lines... I suppose it's pride, in a way... see, I have a girlfriend. If it was love, then he wouldn't be so quick to ask you to fill the role, he would care about the individual girl, I would think. He cares about filling the job position. I don't mean to make it sound so depraved, it's fairly natural. Sadly, what is natural is frequently undesirable.

So he's lonely, insecure, whatever. He needs. You're doing about all you can, I'd say. Turning him down gently is better than helping him kid himself.

I have some insight here. I was like this in college... somewhat. I was lonely, and I needed approval and hadn't seen much of it. It took me years to figure out why I acted so stupid. I got lucky in spite of myself and married a nice guy who filled in all the blanks but by the time I did that, it was for the right reasons, not just because he showed interest.

Not many people take the time to think this stuff through... they just act. It's a lot more painful to deal with it than to bandage it.