For a while now a colleague and I have been exchanging very flirtatious WhatsApp messages, but we don’t actually see each other a lot because he is field based and I am office based. He suggested going out for a drink for my birthday which is in a few weeks as he will be in the area. I decided to take the bull by the horns as such and ask the context of this drink/dinner. From his replies, I’m thinking I forced him into turning it into a “date date” and he doesn’t really want that 🙈 What do you think?