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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Exactly. This is a true issue, a lot of men think that when a woman is nice to them it means she likes them rather than she is just being a normal nice person. This CAN then result in her being called a tease or other not very nice things for turning him down.
gpt
Seems like a catch 22. Someone needs to break the spiral though.

For me it went the other way. I grew up and thought that any form of contact a girl made with me meant she liked me. I learned that they probably just wanted to be friends.

Which then lead to me missing out on clear signals. 

I've even had a girl in the same bed as me in her underwear and I was like "well good night!" and fell asleep. I did kinda know she wanted to do something else, but I was to scared to initiate with the slim chance that she didn't really want to bang.

It is also the same reason I have been with my SO for 9 years. I accidentally said I liked her more than a friend. We speak Norwegian and Swedish, so for me it was an expression I thought people just told eachother here, as I was new in the country.

Well...