Does my coworker put me on a pedestal? Or see me as his possession?
We're cashiers at a restaurant. It's clear that he's attracted to me. I'm attracted to him too, but my family and friends all say I'm too pretty for him. My family is also wealthy (he knows because I went to the private high school), and he's, ahem, just above the poverty line. About two weeks into us knowing each other, he shared a really intimate story of a traumatic experience that happened to him. He’s an empathetic person that cares for other people, but he gets angry over minor things. Even though he will explode at the most random times, there'll be other times when he's good at conflict resolution.
I invited him to my birthday party. 951
Supposedly, a few weeks before, he was flirting with me, but I didn’t pick up on it. So when I invited him, it confused him. He thought I was giving him mixed signals. On his Twitter (that I don’t follow), he was saying stuff like “playing with people’s feelings is bad” and “disloyal people annoy me”. The next several weeks, he gave me the cold shoulder and really did not want to talk to me. He also got promoted to shift lead the week after I invited him.
He’ll also roll his eyes or grunt over things that aren’t a big deal. Sometimes I wonder if the thing that I did even warranted a sigh or eye roll. I’m just wondering, if I got into a relationship with him, would it get worse? Does he maybe think I'm too pretty for him, and he gets jealous about other guys, so he tries to break me down in this way? Or does he see me as his toy, and he knows he has me under his thumb, so he's more "free" to do these things?
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