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Hi Guys and Gals!

I came across an article after hanging out with a few friends yesterday.

Reading closely, the article reinforces the idea that on some level we're basically flirting with most people we grow close to... friends as well as folks we consider "relationship material". Hmm. It reminded me of what y'all said reply to a few of my previous behavioral questions:

• How often do you text someone (opp gender) who you're just friends with?
• Why would someone with reductive thought patterns suddenly want to be friends when he doesn't value his interactions with women?
• Be honest, someone writes you a long message/email (1+ page), do you read the whole thing or just skim?
• Girls, Ladies, ever had a friend who claims she "considers you a sister" but is constantly stabbing you in the back?
• Seems one of my guy friends has caught "girl next door" fever... WT* am I supposed to do?
• How do you know if a guy just sees you as a potential "side piece"?
• Go Fish: Do guys "fish" to see if their close female friends are interested even if the gal only sees him as an elder brotherly figure, nothing more?

(It's a lot... those who have time to browse can, those who don't... skip ahead to the poll. I'm just trying to tie a few things together pertaining to a behavioral issue I'm trying to assess and resolve amicably.)

SO...

• Please see which type of flirt you think you are...
• Share the strangest flirtatious comment someone used on you...
• Share your biggest (or most interesting) flirting blooper.

Here's my story:

I attended a fun summer daycare (not for babies) and met my crush there. I was hanging out with my best friend while she chatted with the person in charge. That person told me, "You are the shyest person I have ever met. Well, you and [my crush]." I was curious, asking myself, who could that be? The very next day, he sat next to me on the bus. He's pretty cute, and I began to develop feelings for him.

A whole year passed, and I hadn't revealed my crush or talked to him. Finally, I gathered the courage to tell my sisters. This turned out to be a mistake. They told my best friend and then my crush. When my best friend and I discovered that my sister spilled the beans to my crush, she insisted that I talk to him (for the very first time!). I said, "I don't know what she's talking about. I have nothing to say to you." I was so mean and embarrassing, right?

After that, his behavior became quite strange. He would always be right in front of or behind me in line, sit across from me on the bus, and twice, he followed me around when my best friend was out sick or something. One time, after being away for two weeks, I returned and was walking to the end of the line when I turned to see him staring and smiling widely at me. I literally jumped!

A few years later, on a Monday, I told the person in charge that my last day would be that Wednesday, and my crush stood next to her, looking a bit sad. Typically, we'd go to the pool on Wednesdays, but he always skipped because he didn’t like it or something. However, on that Wednesday, he came, but only to avoid going to the pool. He stayed out of the pool and watched everyone else swim (including me!). (It was my last day, not everyone else’s, which made me suspicious.) Later that day, at pickup, he stood in the middle of the hallway and watched me leave. So, what do you think? Does he like me back, or am I just imagining things? ❤

Just saw a post where someone was asking about persistence. Whether persistence is a typical behavior or not typical in certain people when interest exist, or if it even an indication of interest itself as apposed to simply desperation…

and so now I’m wondering what people think persistence is. If there is a communion agreement in what that means, or if there’s a huge variation in how we define it.

so what would you all call persistence towards a person of personal interest?

Let’s put it in terms of asking them out because That’s a pretty basic common denominator form of showing interest, and I only have one pole to use.

I accidentally put the poll options in a strange order, so make sure to read all of them before answering. A-F.

thanks!!