He walks his dog, I walk my dog. Same neighborhood.
I always avoid him. One day I accidentally smiled at him and turned red. He kept staring at me with no reaction, when I looked away he said hi and got closer, asked a few questions about my dog. My dog started barking, I went fight-or-flight, answered briefly and escaped
saw him again yesterday, kept trying to avoid him. He comes my way but actually had to go the other way. He was being so different it actually weirded me out. He was sort of clumsy in the way he moved, and usually he seems so self controlled, and he was loud too hahah like talking out loud to his dog but only when I got there. I smiled accidentally again and he asked again about my dog and tried to be funny about her barking. It felt as if he was trying to be fun and friendly? But in a ridiculous way
Predicting some types of answers (“ask him”, “how should we know”): I’m not looking for the absolute truth, just opinions :)
Well you specifically said you’re not looking for advice and what not, so I won’t give any, but I do think when we’re attracted to someone we tend to interpret very small behaviors as cues that confirm our own desires, a kind of confirmation bias, when they’re actually just normal behaviors. That said, there’s only a few ways to confirm your suspicions…