I

titled my post as I did, because I realize that one can only speculate and generalize about these matters, but then

that doesn\'t stop countless people from writing whole books on the matter, so here it goes.

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Let\'s say a man demonstrates interest in a woman. This would

be done in various ways that any \"astute\" woman would pick up on I would think. It does not, however, go so far

as to include a direct request for a date, or a direct declaration of interest.

So, after the woman

\"realizes\" that the man is interested, and she has gotten over her intial reaction of being \"blown away\" by

his apparent interest,she \"appears\" to be relatively open/recepive, BUT how does a guy know the difference

between 1) behavior that indicates she is open, recpeptive, and 2) behavior that indicates she is being civil,

polite, freindly, tolerant etc, because she wants to maintain good relations, but isn\'t actually interesed in

more serious \"advances\"? I entertain scenario #2 because we are part of group that sees each other a lot.