Okay so one of my associate managers at work has been flirting with me. At the beginning I had a boyfriend, and he would always ask how me and my boyfriend were doing. One day I asked him why he kept asking me about my boyfriend, and he told me it was because it’s all he knows about me, however I dont think this is true because he acted pretty defensive about it. I always see him staring at me also, from afar and he doesnt look away when I see him, I’m the one who looks away. One day he came over to my work area and somehow he started telling me how beautiful, gorgeous, and pretty I am. At one point he even told me to look in his eyes and told me I was pretty because I was saying I didn’t believe him. Right after the first time he told me I was beautiful, he says quickly that he isn’t hitting on me, but then said how I was one of the prettiest girls he’s ever seen. Well throughout the whole thing his face was very serious, he didnt laugh once. He said he’s into serious relationships and we agreed we both were. We started talking about age and he said if I was older he would totally go out with me, which I asked if I was too young, and he laughed and said yes sorry. (I’m 19, he’s 23.) Then, at the end of the day, when we were talking I said something about being too young for him,he responded “I would date you. I dont know if you want to just go for it, I’ll take you out on a date.” All said very seriously. He then said nothing can happen until Im single. I took him seriously because not once did he hint at a joke through all of this.
Well when me and my boyfriend break up a couple days later (it was coming anyway) and I go to work, he is completely different!! He jokes with me saying “when are we going out, let’s just cheat on your boyfriend, no I’m kidding”. I then tell him we arent together anymore. His only response is “what!!?'” So later he comes back again saying so are you going to let me take you out, and I tell him if he wants to, to which he says, so we can make out and it wont be awkward?? I am shocked because a couple days before we were just talking about serious relationships!! I just stared at him with a weird look and said I hope youre joking, I dont want to make out right away. After this, it seemed like he didnt come out anymore, because before this happened he was all over the store! I was thinking he was hiding because I rejected him and when he did come over to me later on he asked me with a big smile if I was mad at him because he asked if we could make out and I told him I was, and he just laughed. Later he asks me if I want to talk to him about it, so I confront him and he is all smiley and joking, saying he was joking about the making out thing, telling me he can’t date an associate, to forget about everything he said before, although he would take me out if we werent working together. I am utterly confused about him, at first he was dead serious, then he wants to pass it off as joking when I am actually single.
Is he just messing with me, or did he actually have feelings and he’s trying to repress them because of the work situation? What is wrong with him?
