Eventually, I asked for her phone number and we started talking to each other every night. We've gone out on a couple of dates now, but the relationship cannot go past the friendship level. Recently, she has been talking to me a lot about this man that works in her building. I get the impression that she might be attracted to him. The last thing that I want is to be a shoulder for her to lean on.
Human nature is very strange.
People believe that if something comes at a low cost, it probably has little value, while if things are more difficult to possess, they are automatically of better quality and more valuable. This is where the expression, you get what you pay for , comes from. In other words, people judge things based on what they must give up, rather than what they could earn. This is definitely not just for the pure fun of having them. In fact, if you look deeper into the root of initiations, you will see that they serve a very important function.