Its an immature childhood hold-over and whether he's into you is determined by how he routinely treats OTHER females. Typically a bully is seeking to establish FIRST your unavoidable attention and secondly a kind of dominance, like a nagging itch, compelling you to make them preeminent in the moment, necessary 'to be dealt with'.
Juveniles learn early that ANY attention, even NEGATIVE interaction, to a narcissist, is better than to have your presence discounted or ignored. ~ If you permit this, in a way you're signalling YOUR curiosity and potential submissiveness in their presence as allowing... even condoning it.
Don’t confuse bullying with teasing! If a guy teases you, it may be a sign that he likes you and is just playing with you, but bullying in any form is abuse and not an indication that he likes you. I hope you’re not too affected by this - just remember that being bullied is more of a reflection on the bully and their personality, character and insecurities than it is on you personally. It’s more likely that he envied you in some way, but regardless of his motives, you were the better person here and make sure to learn from this never to allow anyone to bully you again. Use this learning experience to be a better and stronger person yourself - that’s how you beat the bully! 👊
I think if it's silly things like chasing, silly insults, and things like that it's a possibility especially if they're young. If it's legit bullying where you actually feel afraid and threatened, then no they don't like you.
Maybe if he was teasing you or even bothering a little, I could understand. But bullying seems too much for me, you can't go back after that
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There are many reasons why someone might be interested in someone else, not all of which are romantic. You might have been an easy mark, or at least perceived as one? Advancing to the level of bullying doesn’t really strike me as playful teasing in a romantic way, but more of trying to either smooth over his own damaged childhood, or trying to score points socially at your expense.
My uncle used to always tell the story about when he was a kid he used to hide behind a tree and throw rocks at a girl he liked. I guess everyone has a system,
My theory is they try to lower your social value because they want to believe your equal to them
Maybe he did like you or not. Some people have the weirdest reasons for doing things.
No. It means that he is a bully, who needs a good flogging to motivate him to change his behaviour.
Someone is throwing a lot of bullshit you way he is mentally unstable which does not get better with age
No, bullying is never a sign of interest.. Picking on you a little, yeah that might be interest, but definitely not bullying.
Nope. If that was true.. I would have girls and guys lining up to date me. Since I got bullied by both. They just didn’t like me
That's probably all he knows because his parents or siblings bully him worse
No, not always, sometimes a person just hates your guts.
You have to ask that people your age, we don't know how your generation was back then.
No it does not mean that, means he's an asshole
Well it depends on the type of bullying.
Hell no. Don't be stupid
Unless it's a playful way, like teasing, it's not.
Not really.
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