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Im a 24F who is completely smitten with a 27?M guy who works at a partner company of ours. It's been awhile since I've felt this kind of attraction for someone - he's not only beautiful but smart too. My boss jokes that he is either gay or asexual because said guy never talks about women.

I'm trying to figure out if he's interested in me or is purely looking for friendship. Obviously I want more but I wouldn't want to sacrifice a potential friendship because I did something stupid out of attraction. Last week during one of our passing conversations at work he said he thinks I'm cool and wants to hang out sometime. I think that I've been over eager in the past when it comes to a potential love interest & that ends up scaring them away, so I'm trying to balance out aloofness & interest ( I'm not very good at playing love games, i prefer to be blunt ). We tried to hang out last week & it didn't work out - I don't want to get to the point that I feel like I'm pestering him about hanging out. 

I don't want to assume too much & wouldn't mind being just friends since it's not often that I meet genuinely interesting people, but my attraction to him is almost overwhelming at times.
<bot>: I have an overwhelming attraction for this guy but don't want to ruin a potential friendship if he doesn't feel the same.