Things you might be doing to lead men on

This post is inspired by a recent conversation I had with a friend, who was lamenting that male acquaintances always wind up asking her out, when she really just wanted to be friends or just-short-of-friends with them.

She was upset because one of these guys claimed she had been leading him on.

While FDS tends to lean in to the idea that men and women can never really be “just friends”, I decided to compile a helpful list for any women who might want male friends, but don’t want to fall into the trap of accidentally leading them on.

Here are some things that might give men the “wrong idea” that you might be interested in them, when you are not:

• Looking at them

• Smiling

• Standing in their general vicinity

• Speaking to them

• Ignoring them

• Avoiding them

• Saying “No thank you, I’m not interested.”

• Saying, “I actually have a boyfriend.”

  
  

• Any physical contact

• Coughing

I hope this has been helpful ladies! Good luck out there!