I am a social guy, talking to people comes quite natural to me. Therefore I make friends easily. I have had a ton of crushes and was also in love for a couple of times. However I have never had any relationship to speak of (I’m 25, btw), and I feel like I’m missing out on something.
When it comes to relationships I honestly don’t know how people do it. I don’t know what makes someone “like” someone else, safe for their appearance. Or how someone “starts” to see another as a romantic partner rather than platonic. I feel like I only know how to serve friendship. So how do people develop feelings for someone?
Have you ever experienced sexual attraction?
Making friends easily argues against “socially awkward“ as an explanation but you might be asexual.
Yeah, like a ton actually. Sorry I forgot to mention I do in fact develop feelings for people.
Edit: I added it to the description now
Thanks for clarifying.
In general people don’t try to cultivate romantic interest, it needs to arise naturally from desire.
If they are interested in someone romantically, then they pursue that person.
Ask out your crushes instead of trying to force a crush on someone you’re not attracted to.
So you just, ask them out? Do you need to behave any differently as you would with a friend?
You gotta flirt first before you ask someone out.
Do you have to be friends first before you flirt? (I feel like a damn toddler or alien, asking these questions. 😅)
Flirting is just friendly chatting. You can flirt with strangers, you just have to back off if it’s clear they’re not interested.
Wait, so how is that different with friends??
Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact
I was trying to give normal human advice, but if you’re a robot you need to read this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting