A guy that is being friendly doesn’t put himself in too many one-on-one situations with you.

When there are one-on-one situations, he keeps them relatively short.

As he talks to you, he keeps conversations safe and avoids transparent flirting.

There are occasions where he talks to you about other girls.

A guy that is being friendly isn’t mimicking your body language or closing into your personal space.

In other words, his body language is independent of whatever you are doing with yours, and he is keeping himself at a safe distance from you without entering your personal space.

He doesn’t make sustained eye contact with you.

As he talks to you, he makes brief eye contact, but spends more time looking at other people or the scenery.

The thing is, when a guy is being friendly as opposed to being interested, he is quite obvious about it.

The problem is that when someone is interested in someone else, they look for anything that reinforces their desire that the person feels likewise.

Undoubtedly, being that you are interested in this guy, there have been a number of times where you have looked to what he said or did as a sign that he is interested in you.

This leads to you making too much out of a moment, interpreting whatever he said or did in that moment as a sign that he is interested in you.

When he touches you lightly and briefly on the arm, shoulder, back, etc., on one occasion, you interpret that as a sign that he interested in you.

Should he happen to compliment you, you interpret that as a sign that he is interested in you.

In a situation where he so happens to hold a door open for you to let you walk into a room or building before him, you interpret that as a sign that he is interested in you.

Unfortunately, you are so intent on him being interested in you that you are reading too much into these moments.

When he touched you lightly and briefly, it was nothing more than a brief moment of camaraderie, and nothing beyond that.

On the occasion he held the door open for you, it was nothing more than a polite gesture that he does for everyone.

It felt good when he complimented you, but several people you have come across in the past, of either gender, has given you the same generic compliment.

Be careful that you don’t let the interest you have in a guy obfuscate your interpretation of his behavior.

A guy that is interested in you treats you differently from everyone else.

Instead of lightly and briefly touching you on the arm, shoulder, back, etc., he lingers.

Furthermore, he enters your personal space so as to minimize the physical space between you.

When he was holding a door open for you, he had his other hand open towards you, and as you walked by him, that hand gently and protectively moves behind you guiding you through.

Whenever he is talking to you, he is making consistent and sustained eye contact.

His pupils are dilated too, which is a strong physical manifestation of attraction.

When he compliments you, it’s uncommonly specific.

As opposed to a generic compliment that everyone uses, and you have heard several times before, he compliments you on a feature or characteristic that you rarely get complimented on.

That ever-so-slight dimple that forms on your left cheek whenever you smile.

The manner in which your voice breaks a little when you get excited in conversation about a particular topic.

How you fiddle with your necklace whenever you get a little nervous.

A guy that is interested in you observes you closely, so that when he gives you a compliment, it points to a feature or characteristic about you that most people don’t pick up on.