I dislike flirting for sport - I’m cool to flirt on a date or with a significant other, but I am very uncomfortable when men just flirt with me as a way of communication. I have this happen a lot at work, in various social circumstances where I have to maintain a good relationship with that person and if I just tell them, they’d probably be offended or say they didn’t mean anything by it but I am not rejecting any advances - I might agree to a date with some percentage of these people even - but I really dislike being flirted with as a form of social interaction with someone whom I am not actually trying to build a relationship with, it’s just too intimate and I don’t know how to set this boundary in a way that won’t get people offended as many find flirting like this, with just anybody, harmless fun. I don’t. I tried to “loosen up” and “not take it too seriously” - I. do. not. like. this. I. do. not. want. this. I find this disrespectful. I need them to stop. submitted by /u/YodelFrancesca
Originally posted by u/YodelFrancesca on r/AskMen