I've been picking pedals off of roses for the last 6 months trying to figure out my next step. It's been a push and pull for the last 6 months, but here is how it all started. Laura and I were introduced to each other by a family friend. She told me that she had a fiance and that she was getting married in February. I had a girlfriend and I had no intentions of being anything more than friends. It never even crossed my mind. Until I started seeing and hearing flirtatious signs. Signs started with people telling her to stop flirting, then to her friends inviting me to go shopping with them, to her asking my co-workers when my days off were. It also came to the point when her own aunt had wanted to take a picture of the two of us together. Well, all of that was flirting that I didn't take to serious because I know that girls like to flirt and especially because she was engaged. The situation that really left me confused was the day she came by my work to ask me to lunch. I of course didn't mind. While she's in my store, her friend walks in and gives her a lunch menu from the food court (we all know that it's just as easy to read the menu off of the menu boards at the food court). I was a bit confused at this point already. As I approached her to look at the menu, she slowly turned her back towards me (so I had to look over her shoulder). I felt this a bit awkward and felt it as a physical move to open herself up to me. Of course, I had lunch with her and we talked about our dreams, etc. This move really threw me for a loop. I called her up the next day to talk to her. I met with her and confronted her. I asked her about the flirting and she told me that she didn't mean anything by it. Since then, we haven't been able to mend the relationship even though both she and I have made efforts to reach out to each other. Don't get me wrong because I've given her all the space that she needs and I have kept it cool for all this time. Is she afraid to get close to me? Did I offend her? Is there a chance that she is confused about her fiance?
I think she is interested in you but really confused. I mean, getting married in February!?
I think as we get older, it becomes more and more important to just put your cards on the table and be direct! Simply say,
YOU: I have feelings for you, and think that there could be a chance for us to make each other really happy. How do you feel? Do you want to give us a chance or are you going to marry your fiance? I feel I need to be honest here as we're adults and no time to waste on beating around the bush.
Well, since this letter we still haven't talked and I like your advice as to what I should probably say. This will help tremendously and I don't have anything to lose at this point. Thank you for probably the best advice I've had since joining this website. I've kinda started dating other women since, but I think about her quite often. - 5 months ago
Answerer
I'm glad I could help...:) Good that you're dating other women, and moving on with your life. You have no choice really:) Seemingly, that is what she is doing..... Pity you live so far away; I definitely go on a date with you. - 5 months ago
Question Asker
I'm thinking that I'll probably use the line that you gave me anyway. What are your thoughts? Hey, keep in touch you'll never know what might happen? : ) - 5 months ago
Answerer
I'd so GO FOR IT! I always think, at the end of the day, no matter what the outcome, rather live the possible short-lived rejection, than a lifetime of "what-ifs":) Keep me posted on what's going on......:) - 5 months ago
This one is tricky. I've seen this sort of thing before and seen it go in two directions. Once the woman was bored with the relationship she was in and my friend seemed like a better catch so she tested the waters to see if she got any nibbles. She did and ended up leaving the fiance and that was that. The other time the woman was just a validation junkie and flirted with men like they are play things because it made her feel desired (something she missed since being taken off the market, so to speak). It sounds to me like she was interested in you since now that you confronted her (and rejected her) she's wiping the egg off her face by avoiding you. The other possibility is you didn't reject her and actually tried to escalate the relationship and she got weirded out by it because she was in the latter and just thought it was playful flirting and was getting her ego stroked. Only you can say which case it is.