Anecdote: How to gauge the desire the man has for you?

1.

I am having a pleasant, flirty, and lively conversation with a gentleman, and then we fall silent, and I feel a surge of fear in my body and respond by wrapping up the conversation and hurriedly moving to my room.

Many years later, I realized that the fear response I had was the exact moment ‘I want to puncture her” came into the mind of this not-so-gentleman.

2.

I am hanging with a friend and a few men at a distance, keeping watch on us. And then suddenly I feel like twirling about and start dancing in the middle of the room, and as I stop to twirl, my eyes meet his, and there is a bigly spark, followed by an immediate sensation of fear. And I responded by laughing it off and running away.

Exactly as many years later as 1. I realized that the fear response I had was the exact moment ‘I want to puncture her” came into the mind of this not so gentleman’s bro.

They did not succeed. Yay for listening to fear!