QUOTE(mALX @ Jul 20 2013, 10:24 AM)

@ Blackie - There is nothing gender specific about friends that want to suddenly change the dynamic of the friendship and hit on you, I've had both male and female friends attempt to convert a friendship.
I'm well aware that it's a general phenomena, having been on the other side of the position. Simply meant my recent personal experience and the roles of orientation and gender qualities the people involved happened to have had.
Men and Women aren't all that different, besides the obvious ones. We're still sloppy, shortsighted humans.
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I think it is the level they feel close to you is such that they don't know where else to take it but to the next level, in most cases not the one you are thinking about. (and I've been blind to the signals before too, and ended up in an awkward scene of "Huh?").
I suppose. Still painful when the old form must inevitably change to the new.
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The worst part of that is, it does change the relationship after someone hits on you and is rejected. They feel the embarrassment of the rejection; and you feel hesitant to showing the normal affections between you and them thinking (either that may be what started this whole thing, or unsure if that will be a mixed signal).
It's even worse when you don't realize what was going on and didn't realize you had rejected until much later, then to compound it with the realization that you did requite it after all when the realization hits.
In the single mother's case it was like...she didn't act any different, didn't talk any different, just sort of assumed I read minds and the like and then when it finally got to the point of: "Hey, what's going on here? Where is this going?" I was like 'Huh?!' as you said and was a bit put-off.
The worst part was she tried to put in on
me like I was the one playing games...
Like I said, it didn't end well.

Short version: No more ladyfriends! Just doesn't work for me personally.