Am I flirting?

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January 7
31. If I tickle her and accidentally leave bruises, because she bruises like a peach? More reader questions! We’re delighted to see so many of these, lately. Please keep them coming at amiflirting@gmail.com. Tickling is a classic and fun kind of flirting, as long as you know the tickle-ee well enough to make sure they don’t absolutely loathe being tickled. Some people are going to find this really annoying, even if you do it with the best intentions. Those people are also some of the most fun to tickle … because you’re just doing it to get a reaction, right? Anyway, try to resist the impulse until you find someone who sufficiently appreciates it. Whether you accidentally leave bruises isn’t really relevant to whether you’re flirting, unless you’re bruising someone who totally gets off on that. That might be a completely different question, though, so we’ll just answer the one you asked: you’re flirting. Not because you tickled her, or because she bruised, but because you noticed that she “bruises like a peach.” That doesn’t seem like the kind of observation you would make about someone you’re not flirting with.

31. If I tickle her and accidentally leave bruises, because she bruises like a peach?

More reader questions! We’re delighted to see so many of these, lately. Please keep them coming at amiflirting@gmail.com.

Tickling is a classic and fun kind of flirting, as long as you know the tickle-ee well enough to make sure they don’t absolutely loathe being tickled. Some people are going to find this really annoying, even if you do it with the best intentions. Those people are also some of the most fun to tickle … because you’re just doing it to get a reaction, right? Anyway, try to resist the impulse until you find someone who sufficiently appreciates it.

Whether you accidentally leave bruises isn’t really relevant to whether you’re flirting, unless you’re bruising someone who totally gets off on that. That might be a completely different question, though, so we’ll just answer the one you asked: you’re flirting. Not because you tickled her, or because she bruised, but because you noticed that she “bruises like a peach.” That doesn’t seem like the kind of observation you would make about someone you’re not flirting with.