Here's the situation:
Had (have) a silly crush on a work colleague who is also a friend. No romantic interest from his part at all and nor did he ever seem particularly bothered about me; the friendship was casual more than anything.
I was firmly in the friend zone and knew that, but things came to a head for me at one point, I realised in late December it was all wrong and I told him we couldn't be friends at the moment and why. He didn't respond directly to me telling him about my feelings, just acknowledged he had known for a long time. He agreed we needed some distance.
Since then I have caught him looking at me ALL THE TIME. He will look at my legs when they're on show, will look at my face for long periods of time until I look at him directly (I have excellent peripheral vision - years of being surrounded by kids all the bloody time), will constantly look over when I am talking to other colleagues.
He has never done anything like that before. So my question is, now that I have withdrawn all contact outside of work and keep conversations at work strictly about what we need to communicate about professionally, is he suddenly interested? Is he one of those who only want what they can't have?
Either way, I wouldn't start anything with him for many reasons, but I am intrigued to know what is going on. Ideas?