@PErna Manipulating other people and their emotions is amazingly easy. It is easy to act like whoever a person wants me to be when I am not influenced by my own emotions. People do this on a daily basis wearing masks for all different occasions. If you are unaware of this then it is you who is naive.

@lynn, I can become attached to people but it's usually after I create some form of fantasy where I picture them as being better than they actually are. Most people do this all the time in the beginning of a relationship, Infatuation blinds us to the tiny flaws that people normally have. I am not immune to this but it takes me much more time and effort to allow myself to reach this phase. I have had many crushes in the past, but even when I feel that way I am well aware it is nothing more than chemical reactions. I do not delude myself into thinking there is something magical about any one person. I believe all relationships require a certain amount of work. It's been 7 years since my last relationship with a female. I was certainly crushed when it failed.

@TB, thanks, I am still unsure because I do not want to give her the wrong impression, and even when you enter something like this with full knowledge of what you want emotions can run wild and destroy the best intentions.

Either way I have decided to meet with her later this afternoon. It's still possible that I may find this level of interaction to be too much of a nuisance to try to pursue such a thing. Really I don't know and I am only human, I am not always in complete control of my emotions.