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How To Make Guys Want You

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Amy Spencer is a dating expert and the author of Meeting Your Half Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match (out in February 2010, Running Press). We asked her the dating questions that continue to baffle us.

We asked: How do you flirt with a guy and get him to ask you out?

Amy answered: My first answer is that you should be utterly, totally and completely yourself. If he likes what he sees, he'll ask you out. If he doesn't, he won't and thank goodness, because who wants to go out with a guy who doesn't see how damn awesome you are?! Lemondrop: 5 Dating Mistakes We've All Made

That said, there are three things you can do: Show off your great life, provide a little mystery and throw in some old-fashioned eye contact. Instead of being forward with flirtation techniques like batting your eyelashes and touching him, these three things will let you be yourself and make him come to you. Lemondrop: Is It Easier to Flirt Via Text?

Read more of Amy's tips on Lemondrop.

Written by Amber Angelle for Lemondrop.

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