You're listening to the Water Into Wine podcast hosted by Grace Valentine.

Welcome back to another edition of the Water Into Wine podcast.

I'm your host, Grace Valentine.

And on this episode, we're going to be talking about the feeling you get when you wonder if he likes you. I know this feeling. I've been through it. It'll give you down a rabbit hole. You're over analyzing the text. You're wondering if he's flirting with you or if he's just kind of messing with your head. You're confused. It may be a situation ship. It may be a crush. and maybe even someone that you think you're dating because you've been on dates with and you're like, what's going on?

This feeling is the most annoying feeling as a young woman, especially as someone who seeks clarity and who seeks peace in their life. And if you seek peace, it means you're probably also a believer because we love peace because we know the prince of peace. And so it's especially hard when you're dealing with this feeling as a believer who desires marriage, who desires a relationship, because it kind of puts you through it when you're having the highs and lows with someone and you're trying to analyze what they think. And it's someone who you can't get in their head, you can't realize what they're thinking. So I'm going to take you back and I would love to say that this story happened when I was way younger and And I've spoken in a lot of places and I've shared this story because it's that cringing, that embarrassing. But it happened honestly in like my early 20s, mid-20s. And there was a guy who all of a sudden was my friend and then all of a sudden was texting me all the time. I don't know if you all have been through that feeling when there's a guy who all of a sudden is texting you more, asking you how you're doing, sending you emojis, almost confusing you on purpose it feels like. I look back and I remember being like, wait, is this person like in love with me now? Like there's emojis and I'm just going to call him Ethan. But so Ethan was all of a sudden texting me all the time and we kind of were hanging on group settings, but then we would text personally one-on-one, even though we had group chats with each other. So if he wanted to just chat in the group chat, he could, it was almost like he was personally texting me. And finally, after weeks, maybe even like months of being confused and be like, okay, he hasn't asked me out on a date. Like I've seen him multiple times. He's had the opportunity. why is he personally text me? Why is he kind of leading me on if he's not going to lead maybe me to like a date or like pursue me in a clear way? And so finally I text the girl chat and I go, what is going on? Like do y'all think Ethan likes me? I go back and forth and they say send us the text. Like how many times he text you first. I'm going back and forth while I'm driving, which is very bad, looking back

at the text between him and me, looking back at their text. And I tell them in a two-paragraph analysis of basically all his text to me and all the times that he jumped and said these things and how I was thinking he loved me, not love me, but at least really liked me.

I think I started with saying in that text, he texts me first 80% of the time. And honestly,

it's probably like 75%. I definitely like inflated the number, but that doesn't matter. And so

I text them two paragraphs, basically going through his text messages, like reading into them

completely, talking about how much he texts me, his emoji usage.

And after I sent that text, I realized I sent it to him.

And that was the worst deep pit in my stomach feeling, knowing that I sent him a two-paragraph

analysis that could have been basically like a research paper going through his text messages

to me.

And then I immediately, immediately not immediately I didn't

know how immediately was I still blocked out for that moment not because it was alcohol just because

it was so anxiety just filled up my brain and my stomach and I unsent it but then I told all my

friends and they go well grace how long has it been since you unsent it and has he said anything

since it said grace and Valentine unsend a message and i'm like no he said

nothing since then and i'm like i don't even know how long the text messages was there i was like was that

text that was the two paragraph research paper on his text to me did that go to him for two minutes or

one minute or five minutes i don't know and then they said that if he had an Apple Watch, that he would still

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