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I *had* a nice guy.
We had known each other for years, but lost contact along the way. It wasn’t until relatively recently that we’d bumped into each other and started to hit off again.
At the time, I knew he liked me, and I would expect that he knew I was interested in him. We got along really well, and we used to talk for hours on end about random topics, played games together (much to the distaste of my friends) and confided in each other. It went on for about a year, dropping hints, flirting, yet it never progressed further than that. It was like you say, we both “worried about dropping hints and being shy”.
However in my defense, he always acted and talked randomly even when he was “flirting” with me, which was only through IM. Even though I knew he was flirting, he did it so outrageously so that you could almost pass it off as a joke (a real turn off). Almost like “let’s have babies!” kind of thing- stuff he’d never say face to face. In real life, he’d be a real gentleman, but super shy, not even wanting to hug me (and I’m not a ‘free hug’ type of person). This dual personality was just covering his ass and it annoyed me. I don’t feel like confessing to a guy who doesn’t express his feelings more sincerely. In the end I just lost interest, couldn’t be bothered etc. Felt like a bitch because since there wasn’t exactly anything to break off, I couldn’t exactly announce/explain my sudden distancing from him.
Wow..I rambled on for a while..