[quote=Halo] Don't you think you're looking a bit too much into the language patterns of a sleep-deprived 17-year-old typing this out on a phone at 5.30 in the morning? You're ignoring the content of the point, what I actually said I meant throughout the post, in order to scour choice of language in a couple of sentences.The vast majority of the people I'd trust with my life, I don't have any sort of flirting dynamic with. The girl I have a crush on, I have no flirting dynamic with. It's unimportant; I have other, more interesting things to talk about with the people I care for than just flirting. And as someone who has friendships he doesn't even want to be flirty in, I don't view it as something being "done" to me. It simply is as it is, because people, and relationships, are all different.That doesn't mean, however, that it doesn't have an effect on the way I talk to that person, and in the manner through which I connect; I have to adjust, obviously, just as you said you have to adjust certain aspects of your humour at times. My question was whether other people felt that adjustment adversely affected their relationships, or not.Now that I've had to justify myself to appease your yearning for pseudo-psychoanalysis of language connotations, would you listen to the meaning of the paragraph rather than connotations of individual words from someone who's just not putting thought into them? [/quote] LOL >"ur putting too much thought" >all these words calm down halo, it was an observation. You put yourself out there for it, so don't be a little bitch about it and just take it as constructive criticism. also no, I didn't do the whole reading the whole point thing because after I got through those parts I knew the rest was just rationalizing. And I appreciate the compliment, but I didn't spend a lot of time analyzing. It was the first thing that jumped out at me. ...in hindsight I realize this is why I always used kid gloves around you. just assume I'm doing your yearning thing or w/e, pls no more tl;dr.