Women of Reddit, what are some obvious hints that you made to guys you were into that flew right over their heads?

Can I reverse this a little?

I’m as oblivious as a guy TBH.

Two instances:

The first is being in high school, sitting at lunch with a group of my friends. I had a little crush on one of them We teased each other, sat by each other, he let me steal his phone to check social media and take pictures, and we literally played “footsies” everyday. Looking back, I think we may have both liked each other, but we were both too awkward to say anything so we just continued the way we were.

The other instance I was a little younger and a bit more naive apparently. As I child I HAD to go to church. Wednesday nights were no exception, but dad worked night shifts and mom didn’t drive. So we always had someone come pick us up and the same person drop us off. This particular week my mom has one of her friends with a gorgeous son, who was only a few years older, come pick us up. I had had a crush on him for years at this point so of course I was excited. This particular week I also had a friend with me that ALSO liked this guy. So let’s fast forward to after church. The son, my friend, and I go to the van. My friend and I are in the back seat waiting while the son is kind of goofing off and talking. Suddenly he picks up some magazine and gets out of his seat, makes his way to me, and asks if I want to look at the magazine with him.

Me? My dumb self said “Sorry, it’s too dark in here to read, it’ll ruin my eyes.” He made his way back to his seat and sat down quietly. My friend said, “I’ll look at it with you!” And his response was, “Nah, I don’t wanna look at it anymore.”

It took me YEARS to get the implication that he was just trying to get closer to ME...and that he didn’t actually want to read that magazine. The fact that he shot down my friend didn’t dawn on me either.

Wherever you are, whoever you are with, whatever you are doing...Kyle, you get yourself a girl that will ruin her eyes by reading in the dark with you. You deserve it!

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