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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

(Matt Monday): 5 Ways to Flirt When You’re Afraid They Won’t Reciprocate

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

How do you flirt without looking desperate? When you meet someone you’re into, it can feel like walking a tightrope—you want to show interest, but not come off as too eager.

In this week’s episode, I share five subtle-yet-powerful flirting techniques that create attraction . . . without the fear of looking desperate or risking rejection. (Plus, I reveal a playful way my wife flirted with me early on that left a lasting impression—and it’s something you can easily try yourself.)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Without tension, we just have conversation.

0:04.0

But conversation plus tension equals, I have to show you how you can dramatically increase the amount of opportunities and attraction you are getting in your love life by showing you five tried and tested

0:38.7

flirting techniques that not only work, but are subtle enough that you won't have to risk

0:43.4

looking desperate or getting painfully rejected while trying them.

0:47.7

I'm even going to illustrate one of them using Frodo Baggins.

0:50.9

Okay, well not exactly Frodo, but Elijah Wood.

0:53.7

And I am going to share something amazing

0:56.0

my wife said to flirt with me in the very beginning of us knowing each other to illustrate one of my

1:02.2

points. Our fear of how we will look when we try to flirt and the idea of it going wrong can make us

1:07.9

spend our lives playing it safe, especially when it comes to the people

1:11.1

we really like, which is understandable because we know it is their rejection that will hurt the most.

1:17.3

And because if it goes wrong, we will have to move countries and there is still six months

1:21.8

left on our apartment lease. But we can wind up playing it so safe that nothing interesting

1:26.9

ever actually happens for us in love.

1:29.3

We miss out on real opportunities where something could have blossomed

1:32.3

and we have to live with this nagging feeling that at least some of why we are single

1:37.3

might be to do with the way we are holding ourselves back.

1:41.3

Alright, let's jump into it.

1:43.3

Here are the five risk-free ways that you can start flirting to get way more attraction,

1:48.5

and at the end of the video, I will tell you what all of these five things have in common.

1:53.0

Number one, do 5% more than you would normally do.

1:57.5

If you want to avoid looking desperate while flirting, it might help to start by taking the

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