My mood seems, most often, to be brooding. Brooding meaning, pondering persistently.

When I'm not brooding I'm fantasizing, or I should say imagining because fantasizing is too strong a description, of others on psychcentral of whom I
feel sexually attracted. This attraction stems only from their posts, avatars, and bio.

Some would probably call it a crush, but that's too innocent a term.

How do others work out these predilections into a helpful, listening, platonic acquaintanceship instead of being lost in the fantasy?

P.S. This post itself is to some extent an attempt to flirt.

P.P.S. Don't feel you need to hold back any thoughts. If they're too blunt, then I'll just go off to the corner and cry. Ha!