When a man teases you, does it mean he secretly likes you?

I do t think so, no.

Don't do it. Not with someone at work.

“we like kid around with each other”

You like kid around? Or you kid around? Like, I’m like.

Sometimes teasing is a form of repressed anger.

AI defines teasing as

the act of lightly or playfully mocking, taunting, joking, or making fun of someone, often in a friendly or affectionate manner. It can also involve provoking or arousing desire or interest in something without intending to fully or immediately satisfy it.

R3 That was a typo. It should read "We like to kid around with each other," but perhaps I was typing too fast. Oh dear!

We like to kid around with each other

Get back to work!

Like, don’t do it. Kidding around is kidding around. Don’t embarrass yourself.

It means he is being passive aggressive about his jealousy or envy.

Confront or avoid.

Only if he punches you in the arm and runs away.

Are you a 12 year old girl?

Suggest a happy hour after work, ply him with liquor and see what he confesses.

See if he rides his bike past your house real slow, at least 3 or 4 rimes, after supper OP.

R13 forgot to add that if he does ride his bike real slow, up and down, past your house after supper - that you should immediately present hole OP.

R9 That’s a really good point.

My point is better R15.

"Don't shit where you eat".

It's a TRAP!

Sorry OP but this sounds like a 16 year old girl writing to Tiger Beat's advice column.

Just substitute school for the office.

(Oops, I see several other beat me to it. Ha.)

Sometimes, I'll think he's being serious about something, but then he'll look at me and say "I'm just fucking with you!"

Does he say stuff like I think you are fat. Just kidding!

You'll know it's true love when your paramour coworker offers to clean the French frier for you.

R22 Thread adaptation for fat WHORES.

OP he has recognized you as a stereotypical lonely gay looking for validation. You have something he wants, he won't ask for it up front until he's had time to manipulate you into doing everything he asks and then he will bounce once he gets the very thing he was looking for and you will be ghosted and you will never hear from him again.

Yes, it can mean he likes you BUT dating someone at work is fraught with way too many land mines

Does he tease others too? Some people just have that kind or personality

Well, he didn’t dip MY pigtails in his ink.

That’s what happens when you put 9” on your sniffies profile!

Resign, then make a move on him at your farewell drinks, OP.

That worked for me.

I had this possibility once. I was leaving a job and said goodbye to a co-worker. We had always been friendly but nothing else. He shook my hand to say goodbye and I felt this electric charge go through me. I had never thought of him in a sexual way before.

You are reading into it too much OP. I work with a lot of straight guys where I am the only gay one in a profession that is 90 to 10 all male. Teasing or taunting each other is just a thing they do. They are not comfortable with their feelings to other men so the only way these guys can keep interacting with each other is taunting each other. I would classify it as Bro behavior. "Im just fk-ng with you" is a tell tell sign, it's classic.

If they know you are gay and they still do it, congratulations, they see you as one of them or want to bring you into the flock. Its when they leave you out of their games that sends a message they don't like you or they see you as some kind of outsider they don't want to be associated with.

R24 giving you advice about rent boys not co-workers.

R8 THIS. All of it. You will regret it. Too close to home.

R9 OR not. Everybody’s a damn psychiatrist

I always had a reason for sticking around guys now I'm calling gay baiters. and gays can be gay baiters too if they have no interest in you.

I wasted five years on each of them, on and off. I convinced myself that they brought something to my life that outweighed the heartache.

Perhaps, they did. But if it ever happens again, I'm making a different choice. I hope. Walk away.

I came close to saying to one of them as nicely as possible "you're going to either have to leave me alone or fuck me and I don't think you want to fuck me so just leave me alone."