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Caleefornia, I don’t have any specific advice, because I don’t know what the right thing for you to do is. But I thought I’d mention that in my experience, when young people are dating, it does sometimes happen that a girl will be attracted to a guy, but then when she finds out that he really likes her, then all of the sudden she’s not attracted anymore.
I don’t know what the psychological mechanism is, but it’s a thing that happens sometimes. Part of it may be that women feel attracted to confident men who don’t seem to care about them — there are actually even (non-frum and perhaps quite wicked!) relationship columnists who tell men to be reserved with women (dates, girlfriends or wives) and to not give them too much affection or attention because that will turn them off.
Anyway, when this kind of thing happens, I don’t think it’s a sign that the relationship will or won’t work out. You just have to wait and see how you feel.
Think First, I don’t know if I would read to much into Caleefornia’s use of the word “flirting.” Flirting is in the eyes of the beholder. One person’s flirting is another person’s talking or being normal. Some people refer to it as flirting whenever a girl talks to a guy at all and happens to smile.