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Can you mistake comfort and daily closeness for being in love with someone?

I've been working with this guy for six months called Bradley. The job consists of us being alone together a lot travelling and relying on each other physically.

We work for a small event company. a lot of the time i need him to do the more physical sides of the job as he's a man there for stronger. Me and Bradley are around the same age but I think I've lived a lot more life than him. Bradley is a very handsome guy but I feel he wouldn't be interested if I wasn't the woman he sees and speaks to everyday.

I think my boss deliberately teamed us up together thinking he was doing so match making but im not that bothered about Bradley if im honest. he's a lovely lad but he doesn't know the real me, he knows the work me.

I see the way Bradley looks at me and acts around me. he's like a love sick puppy dog and I think he likes that I need him, it makes he feel masculine having a woman rely on him for his strength.

he's never been inappropriate with me and I've dropped hints im not interested like that but i think he thinks im flirting. All are colleagues refer to him as my "boyfriend" as banter but I wish they wouldn't as I think it hurts Bradley feelings deep down.

His eyes get all big and puffy when I look at him, like a lost kitty who just wants to be loved.

The other day I was pretty confrontational with him in the car. I wasn't nasty to him. I just said " sometimes people think they are in love when they are used to seeing the same person everyday and it becomes too comfortable" he looked down at the ground and just shook his head. He seemed a very embarrassed. It was a very awkward car journey back.

I've got some hoildays now and im hoping distance makes him realise what I said was ture whilst im not there. We've got a big job together afterwards and id like things to go back to normal.
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He does things like buy me my favourite sweets for the car rides. Tried to pay for everything, tries to get me to sing with him in the van which would just be seen as friendly with he wasn't trying to make sexual tension between us. Im a rather small woman compared to him and I've often had him come up from behind to help me lift equipment and tried to help me down when on ladders or coming of the back of lorries with equipment. Again I think i make him feel needed and masculine.
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Sometimes I do feel scared being alone with him. I know he's a good person and has never over stepped but as a petite woman you do feel like you need your gard up sometimes especially with men whk could easily over power you. I've had men force themselves on me before and had to fight them off so my trust in men isn't great
Can you mistake comfort and daily closeness for being in love with someone?
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