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birretta Mar 22, 2025

Men and eye contact

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Men, help me read eye contact. Mainly interested in this guy who’s always extremely serious when looking at me: he holds eye contact and i’ve caught him looking at me when I can’t see him but whenever we interact he’s dead serious. Never smiled back to me, he’s always nice though… He doesn’t seem shy but maybe I can’t tell cause he seems very masculine… I don’t understand if he’s just serious, or shy or intentionally doing that. He almost looks angry but I can tell he’s not haha

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Azzu Mar 22, 2025

Probably just someone without well calibrated facial expressions. Learned to be very stoic and show no emotions.

Easiest way to find out would be to just ask him what he’s thinking when he looks so seriously at you, though I understand that’s probably very scary.

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birretta Mar 22, 2025

Yes I thought about it, but the weirdest for me is not smiling back at me. That’s what typically happens even with strangers, no? I happen to smile at someone I’ll never see again and they smile back, it just happens and I’m not the most social person myself… But in this case we bump into each other frequently, he will nod or say hi but smiling NEVER

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Malta Soron

Nah, it can happen. I tend to look rather gloomy, so I need to remind myself to smile when looking at my wife, otherwise she’ll think I’m angry with her when I’m just thinking about stuff.