1. What would you do if your partner wanted to hide your relationship from people?

2. Should M continue his association with V or move on?

3. Do you think the girl V really loves M? 4. Is one-sided love a good idea?

According to a popular adage, some people are adept at understanding signals and the unspoken. Then there are those who don’t get a message unless a truck runs them over. Most people give out enough signals when they ARE interested.

People also give out signals when NOT interested. However, given that all of us are not adepts in sign language, there are chances you misread another’s friendly gestures and assume they might love you… or ignore the signs that announce they don’t love you.

Here are the five things that definitely say another is either not interested in carrying on with the relationship (if you aren’t imagining the relationship in the first place) or are not interested:

1. S/ he does NOT introduce you to friends and keeps you a secret:

Unless there is secrecy due to parental disapproval or HR trouble (for office romance cases), most people will introduce their partners to their friend circle.

If yours is not doing so, there could be two reasons: You are not ‘important’ enough to be introduced (and are a private convenience or ‘time-pass’) or they don’t consider you good enough and consider you an embarrassment.

If s/he talks to you (or meets) you in private but denies even knowing you in public, they are not serious about the relationship and you are about to be history soon.