1. You switch from
being nervous and sweaty around them to being comfortable and almost even chill around
them. It used to be that the idea of kissing them made you feel like you'd
just had four cups of coffee mainlined into your bloodstream, but now you find
you can *GASP* be yourself around them (OF ALL THINGS).
2. When you part
ways after a date or hangout, you don't feel anxious and crazed wondering when
they'll text you again. It's all totally cool, they'll text when they
text, and in an insane twist of circumstance, maybe you'll even text
first.
3. All the other
crushes you had in your crush reserve start to feel kinda boring and
unimportant. When Dan from the gym asks to hang out, you're like,
"Meh, fine," instead of "ON MY WAY," because you'd much
rather just hang out with your Primary Crush, Brian.
4. Your text
conversations are actual conversations, instead of flirty, "I swear
I'm not desperate" texting games. Like, you actually reply when
you first see the text instead of doing the whole "I'll keep him on
his toes" waiting game bullshit thing. You're way past this depraved
form of text courting.
5. You're happy
just to go to the grocery store with them instead of planning a perfect
evening deserving of its own soundtrack and rom-com montage. With the
right person (someone you actually like), traipsing down the
chip aisle hand-in-hand is a romantic date all on its own.
6. You don't shave
your legs every day just on the off-chance they might ask to hang out and see
your naked legs in all their stubbly glory. Or basically, you no longer
worry that they'll be repulsed by you if they have to face the fact that you're
a human and, like all other humans, are occasionally a little disgusting
and unkempt.
7. When they
sleep over, you're finally cool to wash your face and brush your teeth and
go pee without making a whole thing about it. Like, no need to pretend
your night time beauty routine just doesn't exist because someone else is in
your space when the night time routine normally happens. You can finally resume
normal living; the chokehold of the crush is loosening.
8. You no longer
daydream about smooching every single random hottie you see out in
public. You've got your own hottie to smooch.
9. If they called
you on the phone, you wouldn't freak out, throw it against a wall, and
flee the country. If their phone call to make a last-minute plan comes
across as more sweet than creepy, this is definitely more than a random crush.
Phone calls are serious shit.
10. When they don't
text back for a few hours, you don't immediately go into full-on "THEY
HATE ME!!!!!" panic mode. You've gotten into such a good
groove of texting every day that you no longer worry that a delayed response
means they've suddenly lost interest, because at this point, that would feel
really abrupt and incredibly rude.
11. You fight the
urge to say really crazy things like, "I like you," and, "You're
great," when there's a nice little quiet moment. It's no longer
enough to just be like, "Let's make out!" or, "Having sex is
fun!" You're ready to bring actual human feelings into the mix.
12. You don't get a
panic attack from thinking about taking them to events that are more than a
month away. They may very well still be around in two months when your
favorite band is playing a show in town, and you feel really sad thinking about
the possibility of them not still being around.
13. Your daily
concern switches from, "Oh god, I hope they like me," to,
"Oh god, I hope they like me as much as I like them." It's
no question that they're crushing back, but are they crushing back with the same
intensity as you? God, liking people is too fucking hard.
14. Analyzing their
sentences for any tiny hint of a forthcoming relationship becomes your area of
expertise. Wait ... when they offhandedly referred to us as a
"couple" the other day, did they mean, like, a couple, or
a couple of people who hang out sometimes? I MUST KNOW.
15. You don't worry
that sending them three texts in a row might make you seem like an unstable,
obsessive freak. Or in other words, you no longer worry about coming
across as having "no chill," or, god forbid, actually caring. You
want them to know you care. Because you do care! And caring, when it's
reciprocated, is so much fun.
Credit: Menshealth
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