16 Signs Your Guy Friend Likes You but Is Hiding It

He may not be hiding it as well as he thinks he is …

Crystal Jackson
Relationships 101
Published in
11 min readDec 16, 2023

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The truth is that women always know if a male friend is secretly into them. No matter how much a man thinks he’s hiding this information, women usually know. In fact, I’d say that 99.9% of the time, his idea of hiding this fact is a woman’s idea of loudly broadcasting it.

It doesn’t help that a lot of men befriend women they would date — given the chance. It leaves most of us feeling like there’s an ulterior motive any time we’re friends, just friends, with a guy. We might have him thoroughly slotted into the friend zone, but he keeps trying to wander outside of those gates despite being shoved back in each and every time.

16 Signs Your Guy Friend Likes You

The truth is that the best relationships often start with friendship. There’s just a big difference between being friends with the possibility of one day being more and just wanting to be friends. The former can lead to a very cute love story, but the latter rarely does.

If you’re not sure if your guy friend likes you, there’s one of two reasons. Either (a) you’re not paying attention, or (b) you like him and are too nervous about the whole thing to accurately determine if he likes you back. Or…

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