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So i 38f have crush on my coworker 39m. So far I never approach him in office due to my own concern for 'work ethic'.

What I've done so far is making IG story post for close friend. Adding him to that close friend. After some time and incident, he notice that he is the only one from office in that close friend list - and yet he keep watching my story (but never initiate any interaction to me).
He also keep posting story on his instagram, and often times I comment with short text and he response to it in friendly manner

Now the question is.. does he have interest on me too but just being passive? or what happen here? Because for me personally, I would just mute and never check the opposite IG's story and hide mine from them - so that they won't have any false hope

I’m wondering if this guy at work could have a crush on me or at the very least find me attractive. We work in completely different departments so there is minimal chance that our paths would cross in a work related context. Here is a list of his behaviours:

He is the one who started interacting with me. I noticed him gazing at me one day, our eyes met and he smiled at me.

The gazing/smiling happened a few times and he would always be the first to smile, I’d always be the first to look away.

When I eventually said hi to him, he smiled even more

He went through a phase of ignoring me and looking away when stood near me

When we do talk, he is smiling the whole time.
On our first proper interaction, he asked where I work and he said twice that he will have to come and “check it out”. I also told him what time I finish.

My friends said that they saw him walking past our office and staring into our office, ten minutes after I finished.

He acts somewhat awkward/fidgety when we walk and he sometimes backs away/walks away when we talk.

My work friends have noticed the way he looks at me. One saw us talking and she said “if my boyfriend looked like that at another girl, I’d be upset”

I was walking behind my friend and he was walking towards us. He was practically fixated on me and staring at me, then I looked at him, and he smiled at me.

I’ve never seen him talk to other random girls who aren’t in his department.

I’ve noticed that he will mess with his hair if I am nearby.

We sometimes make eye contact from afar.

Yesterday, as I turned around, I saw him looking away quickly which would indicate he was staring at me. And then as I was grabbing some cutlery, I looked up and he was staring at me.

There are some things I find confusing:

I’ve never caught him staring at me and looking at me loads
He never looks at my body, he just stares into my eyes and at my mouth
The whole walking away/backing away when I’m talking to him confuses me

What do you guys think?

A couple of months ago I had a falling out with some ex situationships/ failed talking stages. It took me a while to block them, but eventually I did. A couple of days ago, I get a friend request on Instagram from a "new" account. The profile picture is a gopher. They had 10 followers and were following 20 accounts. The bio claims they are a younger student at my school graduating in 2027. "Malcom Knight" was the name. I started asking who they were, how they found me, and what their real name was.

They said it was their real name, and that they found me through recommended accounts. I searched up their name in the school's email list and this name doesn't exist. When I confronted them about it, they said they've been working on it with IT for the last couple weeks.

Then he basically said: "You're paranoid, I'm not a fan. I don't fuck with this weird shit. I don't need a wannabe detective all up in my business"

and blocked me.