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female
age
36-40,
anonymous
writes:I am currently living in another country, and am staying with a family. My home mother keeps trying to set me up with one of her friend's sons. First of all, I am shy, and I am also proud and was somewhat offended. But, now I'm starting to kind of like him. He is a few years older, but if anything, is more shy and awkward around me than I am around him. Is this something I should just stay away from?Or, if I do get another chance to talk to him, should I be more outgoing and try to strike up a conversation with him? We have a language barrier and he seems kinda uncomfortable... I think he's just even more shy than I am... how do I make it more natural?Help!
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reader, anonymous, writes (9 November 2008): Stop thinking about the possibility of a relationship, show interest in him as a person, what he likes, what are his hobbies, his pasions, etc. Get the realtionship thing off the table and find more about him as a person showing genuine interest in what he says because of the content and not just the package.
Moreover, you can tell him one day in a playful way "I think our mothers are trying to fix us up and feel like it's making things awkward between each other. Can we just ignore them and talk like normal people?
That way you'll develop interest in each other as people and not as part of a macaber plan pf your parents, then a relationship might develop.
Good luck, relax and don't take things too seriously.
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