The Awkward Silence

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Extroverted Main Man

04:05

I have feelings for my friend. He is straight and I am gay. He knows that I'm gay and that I have feelings for him. He has been flirting with me. He has said that he might try some gay stuff, but he is still saying he is straight. I don't want to tell him to stop flirting with me because I like i...

2 hours later…

Tinkeringbell

05:41

Morning!

ankii

06:29

@ExtrovertedMainMan sounds like a typical story on r/askgaybros.. but answerable nonetheless

title makes it sound different from what the body says though

@Tinkeringbell morning! is the title edit I proposed there better ?

Tinkeringbell

Meh. OPs post clearly states in the first paragraph that this is not what they want...

ankii

reduce =/= stop

Tinkeringbell

I dropped it a comment. It needs clarification.

I still think it's inherently an intrapersonal question we don't take, because even the 'tell him to stop flirting' is followed with 'in order to get over him'.

ankii

I could post a counter saying that feeling weirded out because a "straight" person is being affectionate towards OP is the wrong thing to feel. And that OP shouldn't be jeopardising the friendship due to this pressure.

the friend could be curious, "queer-masculine" in the words of Robert Heasley - Indiana University of Pennsylvania

doi.org/10.1177/1097184X04272118

Tinkeringbell

06:48

Luckily this isn't the free-for-all-shrinks site, but the interpersonal skills one.

ankii

06:58

hmm right .. why bother shrug .

CaldeiraG

Morning!

Tinkeringbell

Hey :)

CaldeiraG

how are ya?

Tinkeringbell

Just getting started after the weekend. Weekend was okay-ish :)

You?

CaldeiraG

07:33

pretty good

weekend was good :)

Tinkeringbell

Nice :)

A J

08:21

Afternoon!

Tinkeringbell

Morning! :P

A J

Is this Monday?

CaldeiraG

Guess so :P

A J

No longer have any idea about what day it is. :P

Tinkeringbell

@AJ There's pills for that :P

But yeah, it's Monday. You should probably get to work. Like all of us here :)

A J

08:29

@Tinkeringbell Really? There are pills that are named after weekdays? :P

@Tinkeringbell Yep. I am working.

Tinkeringbell

@AJ Yep!

A J

Hahahahahaha! :D

CaldeiraG

0€ discount :P

A J

Wow! So much discount! I can buy another motherboard with that. :P

CaldeiraG

A J

08:34

There was a offer I saw. "Buy one beer. Pay for two and get another beer for free." ;P

CaldeiraG

well i was going to buy a 130€ MB for my ryzen build, the B450 Tomahawk Max but it was out of stock so the mb i got is about 95€

not too bad :)

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Tinkeringbell

11:41

Ooh, a rare spam.

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avazula

14:04

@Tinkeringbell yea, they're been hiding lately

Tinkeringbell

Or we've hunted them close to extinction? Please, tell me that's true? :P

avazula

I mean we can hope x)

But Charcoal seems pretty active :p

Tinkeringbell

Too bad :P

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CaldeiraG

15:25

What an awesome IT service desk I have /s

Have a ticket open for more than an month now

Been sending emails every week to any updates, they forward to someone and nothing for another week

Extroverted Main Man

15:53

Q: Should i be concerned with my boyfriend keeping things of his exes?(more than 1)

When my boyfriend and I got together I was going through a divorce. I was in that relationship for 6 years so I had a bunch of pictures and things shared with my ex. He got really emotional when I came across some pictures from years ago of him and I. He asked me why I still had them. I just neve...