Dude, you are overthinking this and I’m speaking from experience here, but if you don’t know one way or the other, you have to make some sort of a move. I dunno whether its best for you to ask him or her for a drink and ‘see what happens’ or drop subtle hints or just be upfront about it, but you have to do something and then if you are rejected then there are other fish in the sea.
Otherwise, the longer you leave it, the weirder it gets. Once you have become good friends, you are no longer asking them out for a casual drink, you are asking them for a serious relationship.
I have not been able to find anything about the prior of someone being in love with you.
You’re just asking them out for a drink. That’s all. Unless you are following 19th century social norms, you are allowed to go out with someone you are not yet in love with, and while falling in love may take time, generally people make up their minds about whether they find each other attractive pretty quickly.
Dude, you are overthinking this and I’m speaking from experience here, but if you don’t know one way or the other, you have to make some sort of a move. I dunno whether its best for you to ask him or her for a drink and ‘see what happens’ or drop subtle hints or just be upfront about it, but you have to do something and then if you are rejected then there are other fish in the sea.
Otherwise, the longer you leave it, the weirder it gets. Once you have become good friends, you are no longer asking them out for a casual drink, you are asking them for a serious relationship.
You’re just asking them out for a drink. That’s all. Unless you are following 19th century social norms, you are allowed to go out with someone you are not yet in love with, and while falling in love may take time, generally people make up their minds about whether they find each other attractive pretty quickly.