Working with someone at such close proximity often brings two people closer together.

Most people who are working full time spend more time with their co-workers than they do with their family members.

While he worked with you for 6-7 months, a stronger relationship developed between you.

You were both spending more time with each other than you were with family members.

This resulted in a closeness.

It gets really boring when two people spend that much time together but only focus on work.

A man and a woman working together with this much proximity have a tendency to develop a fondness for each other.

Sometimes, this fondness leads to romantic tension.

This is where he was clearly showing that he likes you.

He gave you sexy compliments and teased you occasionally.

There were several moments he got a bit too close to you physically, so close you could feel the heat permeating from his skin.

Furthermore, he brought your favorite coffee to work so that you didn’t have to go without a stimulant for hours of fairly boring work.

In conversation, he repeatedly asked about your family and life, showing what seemed like a genuine interest in learning about your favorite hobbies and interests.

Everything was pointing to him eventually asking you to hang out to do an activity outside of work as an official date.

You could feel it coming.

He had alluded to it a few times.

A few clues were voiced about how much fun it would be to do a particular activity with you.

Yet, nothing solid was ever set.

Always insinuating but never making a rock-solid plan to meet up on a date outside of work.

It has been a while now.

You are no longer working as close to each other as you were, but he is still maintaining communication with you.

Yet, he hasn’t asked you to hang out once.

It is getting to a point where you are wondering whether those 6-7 months were all a hallucination in your mind.

Was that all a dream?

Did you actually work with him for 6-7 months and often catch him staring at you and parts of your body as though he wanted to eat you up?

Was the moment he touched your hand and lingered while staring deep into your eyes all in your head?

The truth is, all of it happened.

This kind of consistent behavior over a period of 6-7 months is often a sign of attraction.

That said, he wasn’t at a place where he wanted to take things to the next level.

He enjoyed how you reacted to him whenever he flirted with you.

That gave him a boost to his ego.

However, he never wanted nor intended to take it any further than flirting with you at work.

A man who genuinely wants a woman doesn’t require a long time to figure it out.

He worked with you for 6-7 months, which was more than enough time for him to figure out whether he wanted to take things further with you.

He chose not to, and not because there was never an attraction.

More so because he wasn’t ready to take you seriously.

Sometimes this has to do with emotional unavailability, unresolved heartbreak from a previous relationship, or an unwillingness to take on the financial responsibility of courting someone.

This happens.

Not every enjoyable and seemingly romantic interaction at work leads to courtship.