There is no information on this! Well, that’s doubtful, but none that I could find. I googled it on Google, Yahoo and MSN, none of which came up with any overly helpful results.
So what are you supposed to do when someone says “I like you” and it isn’t recipicated. I’ve spent the last hour or so brainstorming ideas for a friend. Personally my favourite is…
I’m Encorian and only interested in dating other Encorians
But I can see why others might not be so big on the idea.
We came up with many reasons like “I’m seeing someone” or “I’m busy with exams” but I class these as delaying excuses which are not a good idea – because you could find yourself in the same situation at a later date.
The trick is to be honest but not harse. As tempting as it might be to emotionally destroy them :p. Well that’s my 2c at least, I know some people are quite into the emotical destruction, and when most of us, including myself, are actually in the situation, being honest is one of the hardest things in the world to do.
So as tempting as it is for me to do, I’m not going to sit here and preach about the about how it’s the right thing to do to be upfront and just come out and say “I’m not interested” because I’m sure I will do that next time I’m in that situation.
I am quite a fan of the added commentary appropriate though, it makes me feel better to add it in. “I’m not interested” becomes “I’m sorry I can’t work out a way to say this that doesn’t sound harse but I’m not interested,” or “I really don’t want to sound patronising as I know it sucks when people do that so I just want to let you know I’m not interested.”
Oh and one final thought. Imagine how hard this was when we played the game face to face rather than texting each other like the cowards we are ;).
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