Any positive action falls into one of three categories.

1: They are being nice pleasant friendly.

2: They have an agenda usually self serving.

3: They are attracted.

When you have a few positive actions thrown at you you can then test to see what level of positive action they are acting from.

Nice/friendly/pleasant will keep it at that level.

Agenda may or may not escalate but there is always “a hook and catch”

They are also most likely to play games with the easiest ones being pretending to not be interested or making you do things to earn their love trust etc without directly making those things standards, putting you down etc.

An attracted person will show signs of wanting to escalate.

That’s really all there is to know.

It amazes me how much we overcomplicate even the simplest of things we have been born to do.

I learned this through trial and error and mainly to help me with my harm relationship ocd and it has served me wonders.