Why do guys mistake being friendly or smiling as attraction?

[MerryMaria]

I have a serious qiuestion. Many times, guys will mistake me being friendly or smiling as attraction. Is it possible just to be friendly or friends with a guy?

[Orion84]

A lot of women don't send clear signals, so sometimes a guy's individual personality will determine what he does with those signals.

There are just as many women asking why guys assume a smile is an invitation, as there are women who wonder why the guy she smiled at didn't approach. Same signals, but different intentions.

Some guys just decide to take even the vaguest hints as a green light and will shoot their shot, while other guys will be completely oblivious to even hardcore flirting, because they assume the woman IS just being nice, even when she wants more than just friendship.

[egan3141]

Just because the guy makes the mistake doesn't mean you can't still be friends with him. Just means a mistake has to eventually be fixed.

As for why, that's because women are so against telling a man how they feel and uses those same signs to imply they DO have attraction. Check this same website for questions about how to know if a woman likes you, and you will see these same actions listed.

[Abbycado]

I have lots of guy friends at school that have never made even the slightest mood, so yes. Don’t listen to the fuckwits here tell you different. They are losers that can’t control themselves.

[Steve-the-lion]

Because it's not that common for a woman to be nice to a man unless she's attracted to him. And as a man, I'm not that interested in being friends with a woman. I only want a woman for either a relationship, or to use as sex. Being just friends with a woman is pointless, but unfortunately a lot of men are simps.

[Anonymous]

For the same reason that women take being friendly as interest.

It is possible to be just friends with guys. I'm JUST FRIENDS with every woman that isn't my wife. But you do have to be careful how you go about it and even then there sometimes will still be misunderstandings. But in general the woman that have this problem constantly do so because they do not know how to interact with men without flirting with them.

[bowenw]

Guys are wishfully thinking. It is possible to be just friendly, but be prepared to tone it down with guys that misread your friendliness as more.

[Anonymous]

I never do, whatever a girl does - I don't consider it as "attraction", I always think it's just being "friendly"... mostly because I used to getting friend-zoned all the time.

[Anonymous]

Because most women aren't friendly to men unless they are attracted to them.

[spartan55]

Why would a guy just want to be friends?