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Somewhere I read that a woman should keep it serious whenever someone lightly insults them (whether playfully or not playfully) and wear a straight face instead of laughing along with it / playing it off.

I definitely think this will gain the person more respect but I'm not sure whether one will come off as sexy-confident or too serious. On a scale of self-deprecating (1) to self-assured (10), how confident do you like your mate to be? Also how tolerant do you like them to be?

Real-life example: I had poofy hair at some point in my life and one of my male friends joked about turning me upside-down and using me as a mop. I laughed and playfully hit him. How should I have reacted?

I am due to move out soon but I don’t know if I should act on this before. I’m very attracted to him but also nervous as hell around him. I’m thinking he’s into me but could I be mistaken? What are the chances I’m over-reading?

1) he would very often adopt a gentle tone and speak softly to me? And also touch my upper arm at times

2) he would sometimes tease me and have this dopey grin on his face while titling his head at me (a very contagious eye-to-eye smile like he thinks I’m super adorable - you know that ‘aww look’ when you give to babies/puppies)

3) we once ran into each other while out and when he realised it - he acknowledged me and then started at me intensely (I was passing him)

4) he seems to come around the common area shirtless a lot when he knows I’m outside - we live in a coliving space. He comes home late night - sees me in the shared space alone and would go into his room and reappear shirtless a few minutes later (on the pretext that he wants water /throw rubbish). I’d be working but it seems like a show for me?

Am I overthinking any of these 4 signs?