how would you go about this

i asked this guy to hang out because he had just got back in town from finishing basic training and tech school and i thought it would be nice to catch up. MIND YOU he’s chopped so i didn’t think about him like that anyways he asks if i want to get dinner and i say yes cause i can’t pass on free food and then we just started hanging out more and more and on my end i see it as friends but NOOOOOOO ig he saw it as more. eventually he asks and was like where do you think things are going between us and i said i wanted to just be friends and i didn’t want a relationship. he then intended to push it not in a rude way but in a way to where yk that he really wants me and asks if we can take things slow so im like ok sure and nothing changed on my end it’s not like i listened to whatever he said so i just stayed how i was acting as if he never said anything. so then fast forward a few months at this point we hang out so much that his family is like when are you guys gonna date blah blah blah and then he eventually asks and is like do you want to be my gf and knowing that it’s awkward to say no i said yes. mind you ik all of this is kinda my fault but how can i break up with him in a way that’s not that problematic