First off, I have a hard time understanding people’s facial expressions/behaviour (Aspergers) so I don’t always interpret it correctly.
My husband has been going to a cute young specialist doctor once or twice a week. He doesn’t drive so I drive him there and I usually come into the doctor’s office with him instead of waiting in the car, mostly out of boredom. I do a lot of the talking as my husband has no social skills than me, and we laugh a lot. Over time the doctor has started finding ways to drop little compliments about my looks into the conversation and recently he reached over and stroked my leg when my husband couldn’t see. Both of those things could be seen as normal friendliness but if I was a man, I would never even think about doing them, especially to the young, (sort of) pretty wife of one of your patients, especially in the age of #MeToo. My husband says the doctor is just being awkward because he’s probably never met a woman like me before (which I don’t quite understand) but something about his behaviour seems somewhat calculated.
Anyway it’s been going round and round in my head. I don’t know whether to feel upset and violated - I hate being touched especially by male strangers - or flattered (because he’s so attractive), or think nothing of it at all, and I don’t know whether to keep going there as normal or stay away just in case he is interested in me or thinks I am interested in him, which I’m not.
It IS weird to stroke the leg of someone of the opposite sex, right? I ask because I’ve got myself into some pretty scary situations with men simply from not understanding what they were trying to communicate to me - them misreading me and me misreading them - and I really don’t want to do that again.