Questions tagged [flirting]
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How to reassure Significant Other that I am not trying flirt with other women - are there any reasonable solutions?
I have a good working relationship with my Significant Other, but today she and I decided we would talk to each other about what we feel should be improved on an individual basis in order to progress ...
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Reassuring my wife being jealous of my close female friend
In short, I've made a mistake of being overly friendly and supportive to another person and can't deal with the massive backfire due to me being untrustworthy. More details below.
I met my girlfriend, ...
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How to tell (presumably) straight men who are flirting with me that I'm male, but GNC without "miseducating" them?
CW: potential transphobia
I'm a cisgender bi male, but I identify as broadly speaking gender non-conforming (GNC) and often dress in more effeminate men's or often outright femme-presenting outfits. I ...
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How can women avoid talking during dates while keeping men at ease?
I am a 30 year old American woman. A few years ago, I read online that men and women communicate differently, specifically that men do not like to talk face to face and women like to talk face to face....
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How to start a conversation with an introvert/nerdy classmate?
About me
I am a 16-year-old introverted boy and rarely talk to girls (if ever). I like math, awkward in any conversation 90% of the time, am Asian, not very good-looking.
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I go to the school ...
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How do I tell students at a school I volunteer at to stop flirting with me?
Occasionally, I head out to volunteer to teach robotics programming at an all-girls school in my area. For context, I'm male and age 20, and the students are adolescent females in 7th and 8th grade (...
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Why is this random act of kindness considered offensive flirting? [closed]
In Offering to share my umbrella without sounding creepy op, assumed to be a man, shares an umbrella with a woman because it's raining a lot. For some reason good portion of the response to this ...
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How to get to know a service staff without interrupting her work? [duplicate]
On friday night I was out with some friends of mine, we often go to a hookah lounge (which are quite common here in germany, I don't really know about other countries - basically you can smoke hookahs,...
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How do I deal with people being overly forward on the bus?
I take the bus a lot. (I don't own a car, it's not feasible for me to do so). Mostly, I sit in my seat and I read or I check my phone, people tend to leave me to do my thing.
However, in the past ...
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How do I tell someone I recently met that I am in a relationship?
Before I begin
I am male
I am in a long term relationship with a woman that I live with
I am in an environment where I frequently meet new people
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Throughout recent years, I have been in ...
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How to react when your flirt gives the same respond like you did [closed]
To establish the background of the story, let me explain who is the flirt and what is the relationship between each other in my case.
I'm a 23 years old male and my flirt is also 23 years old but a ...
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What are sensible dating precautions to avoid accusations of sexual harassment? [closed]
Recently, a woman accused a celebrity of sexually assaulting her. Her account has been widely criticised as not describing sexual harassment, but simply describing a bad date.
One of the articles ...
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How to communicate I'm not interested in any relationship other than friendship?
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I (23f) have been working with a guy (30m) for more than half a year already. We used to joke around at work, talk about different topics and generally came to know each other. In those ...
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How do I tactfully get clarity about maybe-flirtatious behavior?
There's a woman we'll call Emma. I've known her for a few years through work she does for somebody in my family. I am in a long-term relationship, terrified of making my partner jealous, and ...
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Why do people flirt in customer service situations? [closed]
I ran into this twice today with two different customers and it's a little strange to me. I almost thought it was just me being aspie and misreading the situation when it happened yesterday, but after ...
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How to communicate that you are not flirting with someone
As a loud, extroverted, and playful college student based in the United States I often find myself in situations where people (primarily women) think that I am flirting with them even when I am not.
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How to manage someone flirting with my partner at a party?
When at a party with my partner, someone was flirting with him and kept putting her hand on his leg. I found myself becoming very jealous, but didn't say anything, and got more and more angry, as he ...
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