yellowtamarin wrote:
Based on what you have said in this thread, perhaps one thing for you to work on is to learn how not to obsess over someone and therefore not exhibit signs of "creepiness".
Not necessarily. The creepiness factor comes in when there is no mutual interest. If there is mutual interest, it can just as well be interpreted in a positive way.
yellowtamarin wrote:
Yes, I do know what it is like to watch someone you like walk off with someone else. I think most people know that feeling. I imagine it is easier to deal with if you haven't gotten to the point of obsessing over them. If you are not intimate with them, you probably don't really know them well enough to know if they are even worth obsessing over, so anything more than a healthy dose of attraction and interest is unnecessary and can lead to unnecessary pain.
In my experience, I cannot get really attached to somebody without a obsessive phase, so the alternative will mean I get shallow attachments which easily break. And intimacy means nothing to me attachment-wise.
My tactics to ensure mutual interest always was that the girl needed to participate in the eye-contact game, and when that is done over longer times, it practically guarantees mutual interest. Thus, I wouldn't obsess about a girl unless she participated in the eye-contact game for a while. At least for me that worked pretty well.