It’s odd to you that you hand-fed your guy friend and he allowed it, even though he already has a girlfriend.

You are curious as to why he let it happen and wondering whether there are romantic undertones to this.

Hand-feeding is certainly an act that two people who are romantically into each other have a propensity to do.

It’s a natural way for them to get physically closer to each other and perform an act that is quite personal.

The last person, besides a past romantic interest, that hand-fed you two were probably your fathers and mothers, while you were babies.

There is a degree of comfort and trust that is intrinsically linked to hand-feeding.

A child implicitly has a supreme measure of comfort and trust for a parent.

Two romantic hopefuls may not have reached a point where there is implicit comfort and trust, but in hand-feeding, they are showing that they are well on their way to establishing it.

The thing with this brand of comfort and trust is that it can be felt between friends too.

Especially, when they are close.

These are normally friends who felt an attraction to one another before they became friends.

Although they are now platonic friends, some residue of attraction still remains.

It’s latent.

Nowhere near as strong as it once was in the early days of their friendship.

Were you two attracted to each other at the dawn of your friendship, but for whatever reason, circumstances led to the both of you deciding to be just platonic friends?

This is quite common.

Once a platonic friendship develops between two people that were initially attracted to each other, traces of the attraction persist.

It’s no longer at the forefront, but it does cause a subconscious degree of comfort and trust for each other.

This is why hand-feeding him didn’t feel strange or odd.

Yet, being that the attraction is no longer at the forefront like it once was, he is now a guy with a girlfriend.

As long as you haven’t been hearing a bunch of complaining from him in reference to his girlfriend, she is who has his heart.

Now that circumstances in your life have changed and you believe that you are far more open to the possibility of dating this guy friend, it doesn’t mean that your guy friend feels likewise.

Before getting carried away with the idea that there were romantic undertones, think back to when you hand-fed him for a second.

Did he hand-feed you in return?

A guy friend that reciprocates in hand-feeding is a little different.

It doesn’t guarantee that he is as intent on you romantically as you are in him, but it does show that there is a part of him that is tempted to see what is there.

A guy with this mindset typically doesn’t just hand-feed you in return.

He hand-feeds you and then watches you chew for a while, as though he is savoring the moment, transfixed by the movement of your face.

Did he do any of this when you hand-fed him?

If this was a one-sided act on your end, it was most likely a situation where enough comfort and trust had been built between you that he didn’t think it strange to eat out of your hand.

Again, this is especially true between friends who were once physically attracted to each other.