{"id":51301,"date":"2017-09-07T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=51301"},"modified":"2022-08-07T19:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T00:39:29","slug":"how-do-i-nicely-tell-a-guy-that-im-not-interested-in-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-i-nicely-tell-a-guy-that-im-not-interested-in-him\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I nicely tell a guy that I&#8217;m not interested in him?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>I saw this website and saw people asking questions and I have one.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a brother in Christ, who seems like a good Christian guy. It seems like he has a relationship with God. This same guy has been telling me that he likes me. I told him I had no romantic feelings other than loving him as my brother in Christ, but\u00a0<em>every time<\/em> at church I catch him staring at me, doing something to be by me, or trying to get my attention. That gets me really frustrated and annoyed. I&#8217;ve talked to God about it but that annoyance and frustration don&#8217;t go away. I feel guilty for rejecting him and saying, &#8220;If that&#8217;s the one for me, then I rather stay single.&#8221; I feel guilty for rejecting the guy and feeling annoyed by him. I do see him as family and genuinely like him but not romantically. I&#8217;m not physically, mentally, or spiritually attracted to him.<\/p>\n<p>What do I do? Should I feel guilty? Keep taking it to God?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t too unusual to run into guys, especially young men who have a tendency toward being obsessive. Such guys tend to not get hints very well. I would suggest talking to one of your elders or older men in the congregation and ask him if he could tell the man to back off.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I saw this website and saw people asking questions and I have one. There&#8217;s a brother in Christ, who seems like a good Christian guy. It seems like he has a relationship with God. This same guy has been telling me that he likes me. I told him I had no romantic feelings other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-51301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-dating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9628,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-i-stop-my-family-from-being-influenced-by-a-mormon\/","url_meta":{"origin":51301,"position":0},"title":"How do I stop my family from being influenced by a Mormon?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I need prayer for myself along with my mom and maybe my brother and father. 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