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" Things have been going really well with my guy friend (let&amp;#039;s call him Kevin), but in the beginning stages, I still have a hard time telling if a guy is actually interested. Although it&amp;#039;s good to be optimistic, you have to be a little careful about getting too serious, before you know how the other person feels. Since Kevin and I already have such a good friendship, I know him better tan I&amp;#039;ve known most of the guys I&amp;#039;ve dated in the past. My girl friends and I spend way too much time discussing whether a guy is really interested in either us or one of our friends, and I think I&amp;#039;ve learned some tips along the way. First, if a guy likes you, he will find time to talk to you. I&amp;#039;ve had guys tell me that they didn&amp;#039;t have a single spare minute to text me that week. Really, dude? I find that hard to believe. One of my favorite lines from an ex was: &amp;quot;I just don&amp;#039;t enjoy talking during the day.&amp;quot; Great. It&amp;#039;s one of those, he&amp;#039;s just not that into you things. It&amp;#039;s true. If he&amp;#039;s interested, you&amp;#039;ll know. On the flip side, K and I talk all the time. It&amp;#039;s important to still be independent and hang out with other people, but when a guy is actually happy to talk to you about trivial things during the day, he probably isn&amp;#039;t just leading you on. The second biggest indicator for me is how he acts when the two of you are around his friends. There is nothing worse than reaching for a guy&amp;#039;s hand and having him reject it because he&amp;#039;s trying to be cool. Too much PDA is super annoying, but so is being completely ignored in front of his friends. Shouldn&amp;#039;t he be proud to introduce you to people? If he isn&amp;#039;t, that&amp;#039;s a bad sign. The last (and the most obvious) sign is how he treats you. It sounds simple, but it isn&amp;#039;t always! If it was, then no girls would ever date jerks, and we all know that happens way too often. I&amp;#039;m guilty of it, too. A few years ago, I probably would have said that hot guys are all jerks and it makes them more appealing, but I&amp;#039;ve decided that isn&amp;#039;t true. If a guy is a jerk to me, I hope that I promptly break things off. You should too! Isabelle blogs about dating every Thursday for Seventeen. Read her last post here! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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