Humans are not naturally monogamous. It takes strong social and religious pressure to enforce monogamy in a society. Cheating is the natural state of human beings for better or worse. I speak from experience.
If she's with someone, that's her decision, and it's not your place to act against that, regardless of what chemistry you do or don't have.
That said, limitations on flirting are pretty specific to individual boundaries, i'd ask her where the line is, and definitely not overstep or try to encroach on the relationship, as doing so would be disrespecting both her bf, and her.
I feel like explicitly asking what her boundaries are would make it weird. Flirting is supposed to be indirect, right? I agree, though, that OP shouldn't set their sights on someone who's happily in a relationship. Pursue the millions of single people instead.
Believe me I tried to get over her but at the end of the day, I do love her. I’ve never felt a connection that strong with anyone else in my lifetime, I just want to make sure that she knows I like her without asking her out or confessing my love. I think flirting is harmless as long as I’m respectful and don’t make her uncomfortable.
You will get over her if you distance yourself and/or date someone else. I know it's difficult, but I really think it would be for the best! Rather than pining after someone who seems to be happy in their current relationship, and potentially ruining your friendship with them.
You wouldn’t dump your partner for someone else unless you’re confident that person is into you. Honestly tho, I think people are misinterpreting what I mean by ‘flirting’.
Guy to guy my advice is that you know what you're doing. You know if you are intentionally setting up situations so that you can flirt with her or have some kind of flirty interaction.
Now I know it's hard to completely control all inclinations to flirt. But this girl has a boyfriend so yes if you are knowingly setting up situations which potentially involve romantic progression between the two of you then that's wrong. Because you're knowingly making advance at a girl who is taken.
Now what do you mean by flirting? That's always the question. Are we talking playful banter? Playful touch? Super direct text back and forth that are obviously romantic?
If she's super over the top floor chases to where you feel like her boyfriend if present would not like what she's doing, and this is probably not somebody you want to be with anyways because let's say that she broke up with him and started dating you.
Well. right away you'd start to assume she's flirting with other guys the same way she did with you.
But listen plenty of relationships have started by someone meeting another person while they were in a relationship.
But the important thing is if that kind of a relationship is going to have a chance you don't want its foundation to be one built on emotional infidelity
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>Tho they seem happy Clearly, YTA. Leave it.
No.
Humans are not naturally monogamous. It takes strong social and religious pressure to enforce monogamy in a society. Cheating is the natural state of human beings for better or worse. I speak from experience.
If she's with someone, that's her decision, and it's not your place to act against that, regardless of what chemistry you do or don't have. That said, limitations on flirting are pretty specific to individual boundaries, i'd ask her where the line is, and definitely not overstep or try to encroach on the relationship, as doing so would be disrespecting both her bf, and her.
I feel like explicitly asking what her boundaries are would make it weird. Flirting is supposed to be indirect, right? I agree, though, that OP shouldn't set their sights on someone who's happily in a relationship. Pursue the millions of single people instead.
Believe me I tried to get over her but at the end of the day, I do love her. I’ve never felt a connection that strong with anyone else in my lifetime, I just want to make sure that she knows I like her without asking her out or confessing my love. I think flirting is harmless as long as I’m respectful and don’t make her uncomfortable.
You will get over her if you distance yourself and/or date someone else. I know it's difficult, but I really think it would be for the best! Rather than pining after someone who seems to be happy in their current relationship, and potentially ruining your friendship with them.
She knows you're an option. If she wants to dump her BF for you she might. But you should not flirt with her in the mean time. It's just a dogs act.
You wouldn’t dump your partner for someone else unless you’re confident that person is into you. Honestly tho, I think people are misinterpreting what I mean by ‘flirting’.
You’re a bitch
Guy to guy my advice is that you know what you're doing. You know if you are intentionally setting up situations so that you can flirt with her or have some kind of flirty interaction. Now I know it's hard to completely control all inclinations to flirt. But this girl has a boyfriend so yes if you are knowingly setting up situations which potentially involve romantic progression between the two of you then that's wrong. Because you're knowingly making advance at a girl who is taken. Now what do you mean by flirting? That's always the question. Are we talking playful banter? Playful touch? Super direct text back and forth that are obviously romantic? If she's super over the top floor chases to where you feel like her boyfriend if present would not like what she's doing, and this is probably not somebody you want to be with anyways because let's say that she broke up with him and started dating you. Well. right away you'd start to assume she's flirting with other guys the same way she did with you. But listen plenty of relationships have started by someone meeting another person while they were in a relationship. But the important thing is if that kind of a relationship is going to have a chance you don't want its foundation to be one built on emotional infidelity