I was at the gym working out and 10/10 girl (I know, I know, first mistake my stupid mind was doing was putting her on a pedestal) walks past me several times looking at me, didn't smile at me or anything, just held eye contact longer than normal, I thought "well, that's green light right?". I couldn't bring myself to smile at her, I feared I would creep her out with my forced smile. She then comes next to me to the squat rack and starts doing some exercises. All the time I was like "Come on dude, talk to her, beat that anxiety, you can do this".

After 3 sets I talked to her, we exchanged a couple of words, she smiled at me but I didn't feel like she was into me. Then we went back to our sets, I asked whats her name, she didn't ask for mine, now I was definitely sure she wasn't into me, otherwise she would have asked mine, right? I asked if she came often to the gym, blah blah blah, "I come with my boyfriend. There he comes".

THERE HE COMES, I turned around and sure enough a dude with his friend was coming towards us, I looked right at him and held eye contact, he looked at me for 2 seconds and looked away, I don't, some macho alpha bullshit came down on me.

And that was it.

I know I should be proud for approaching, I know it wasn't a rejection per se, but still, it sucked.

On the bright side (not related to this sub), 5 minutes later, I manged to start a conversation with another dude that is a regular and we had a couple of laughs, so I felt pretty good after that. Hope we can become gym buddies.