How do I ask someone out?

[ScienceAf]

Confession time: I have never asked anyone out.

I've had girlfriends, boyfriends, I'm married... but never once have I asked them for that. I just... interact with people, and the romance happens organically. We talk, we get to know one another, and if things just click, then it happens. I'm at the point now where asking someone out directly just seems forced and awkward, because that's never been how I do it.

If someone likes you, and you like them, there are more ways to communicate that than straight out saying so in some kind of on the spot proposal. Personally, I just like making people feel good, so I offer compliments freely wherever it seems they'll be received well, and people kinda figure out that I think highly and affectionately of them from that.

I'm not sure how helpful this advice is, by the way: I'm pretty weird when it comes to relationships... but it does work for me.  

I'm 12 so I have to wait for love to develop in my mind, so that's why I need to ask her out.
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