Would you be honest or play hard to get?

I prefer spaghetti to ravioli because spaghetti occasionally falls off the fork and you have to work for it.

The same applies to flirtation. If you're going to just lie there on the fork like ravioli, I'm going to get bored.

That's really awful, he might have been too scared of rejection but to be honest that does not sound like it would have made a very healthy relationship, relationships are supposed to be about safety and trust. My relationship was the complete opposite, met a girl who was incredibly warm towards me at first, I could do absolutely nothing wrong, then she got colder later on in the relationship, even though during the dates she was both tender and laughing, I thought she had lost interest but every time I backed off she said she hadn't and just had issues. I still have no idea what happened because she did eventually lose interest, so was she even interested to begin with or not? ugh Lol

women. ffs.

i've lost count of the number of instances in my life that were exactly similar to yours. it's really frustrating, aggravating and weirdly.. peaceful at the same time. it's all of those as when they finally stop playing hard-to-get because you're off the market; you'd want to rip their head off because they were in fact interested but had a childish mentality in letting you know and could've let you know Earlier so you could've got with them. but it's at the same time peaceful, because you won't be getting any more headaches trying to figure out their intentions.

So if you liked someone, would you be up front and honest? Or would you play games like hard to get etc?

Has being honest been successful or not?
Likewise has playing hard to get or playing little games to see how hard someone would chase you worked or not?

I've seen various threads about what to do if you like someone so I thought I'd see if there were any success stories or any that backfired.