This single dad leaves you feeling giddy after every parent-teacher conference you have with him in attendance.

You have had conversations with him during these conferences that have left you believing that the attraction has to be mutual.

He flirts with you, teases you and touches you in these conferences, and you have now fallen for him.

You don’t know what to do.

You are worried about the risk involved with dating a single dad from your parent-teacher conferences.

How would that look to other teachers and students?

On top of this, you don’t know for sure that all this flirting and touching means anything.

For all you know, he has been behaving like this because he loves the effect it has on you.

You are just a mess right now.

Lost.

You wish he would text or call you after these conferences and get to know you on a personal basis.

But he doesn’t.

Yet, you can’t stop thinking about this single dad.

Every time another parent-teacher conference is approaching, you are filled with as much excitement in seeing him as you have nerves.

Surely, this has to have a resolution.

Rest assured that you aren’t the first female teacher to fall for a single dad she meets at parent-teacher conferences.

Unless your school has an official policy that prohibits teachers from dating parents, which is highly unlikely, there is nothing unethical nor wrong about dating a single dad from your parent-teacher conferences.

Now, as far as what to do about it, you are clearly developing feelings for a guy that you don’t really know outside of these conferences.

This makes you susceptible to filling in the gaps in your mind in relation to what you don’t know about this guy.

This is never good because it creates a false reality which lulls you into developing deeper and deeper feelings for a guy you don’t really know.

To avoid going down this rabbit hole, start interacting with him in locations outside of school or parent-teacher conferences.

Obtain information about where he frequents.

Do this through conversations you have with him at these parent-teacher conferences or through those acquainted with him.

Is he a member of the local gym?

Does he go to the local lake on weekends to fish or swim?

Does he go to a popular local bar with other sports fans after sports games hosted by the school?

Put yourself in these environments on a regular basis.

When you meet him in environments outside of school or parent-teacher conferences, there are less constraints on the two of you.

He doesn’t have to restrain himself from getting too personal with you and you don’t have to feel compelled to maintain professionalism, being the teacher.

This is where it gets easier for him to ask personal questions so as to ascertain whether there is true chemistry between you.

You get to learn about him too, with greater depth.

A depth that is absent in your parent-teacher conferences.

Bumping into him in environments outside of school or these parent-teacher conferences is how you get him to explore this further without restraints.

You aren’t as wound up either.

You don’t have to be the professional in these settings.

You can just be yourself.

Getting to witness you as yourself gives him a perspective on you that he never gets at the parent-teacher conferences.

This perspective on you could be the key to him recognizing that there is more to his relationship with you than the occasional flirtation at parent-teacher conferences.

Such a realization opens the door to him officially asking you out on a date.