Traditional story. Old childhood friend, first real romantic interest in anyone, first kiss... Doesn't see her for three weeks. By then, she's avoiding the whole thing completely and a week later claims to have a boyfriend. Even worse, the whole thing was... fairly intimate. At least he was a good enough judge of character to see this coming miles away, still not good enough to prevent it.

In hindsight, I think we were both this trope. Me being pretty much Asexual beforehand, a Deadpan Snarker and a Knight In Sour Armour, I guess I just had it coming.

This troper once knew a girl whom I had a crush on since highschool, didn't see her again for years, and finally met up with her again. Ohhh boy was she ever a Master of The Mixed Message. She gave off so many signals along the line of "I'm available" and "I REALLY REALLY like you" and "I enjoy your company I don't need anyone else", up to "You're a great FRIEND" and "I'm flirting with other people" then when this troper finally confess his feelings, she figuratively did a 180 degrees backflip and said "I can't imagine you and me dating." Needless to say, this troper was devastated and it resulted in this troper's aversion to romance and women for years. To be completely honest, this troper became slightly misogynistic after that event.

This troper has a "friend" Who has, over the course of an hour, Sat in his lap while talking about a different boy she likes, used the word "friend" three different times in the same sentence, and tried to hold his hand. When he finally confronted her about their relationship, she said that is thought that "[he was] fun to flirt with, but is really not sure."

I have a friend who used to be like this with about every male she knew. All of our male friends have at some point believed that they were about to hook up with her. Her code of conduct went as follows: "1. Lead the guy in question on until he's almost certain that you're in love with him. 2. Brutally push him away. 3. Repeat." As a female friend with absolutely no interest in her, it was quite amusing to watch, although I did feel for the guys.

This troper thinks he's probably one of those guys... it ain't fun

This troper confesses to being (almost always unintentionally) a MasterOfTheMixedMessage herself...

This troper knows a girl. I shared my first kiss with her, and a week later she was telling me she just got a boyfriend like it never happened. She would sit in my lap then act distant when I tried to hold her. She would tell me she wanted to be just friends then flirt with me the very next time we talked. And for one "just friends" talk, she invited me over to her house and then answered the door wearing nothing but a very short nightgown. When she tried to flirt with me next, I put my foot down and told her we would just be friends, strictly because I was tired of it.

This Troper used to be in love with one of her male friends however he had a girlfriend. I didn't tell him how I felt because of this but I didn't however become a master of the mixed message sometimes flirting or making it seem like I was going to confess to him and other times completely shooting down his hitting on me (teenage boys are perverts). The thing that really sucks is that around the same time I fell out of love with him he and his girlfriend broke up. He now constantly jokes about being in love with me and he has become a master of the mixed message. It sucks.

Some of the TroperTales on this page could very well be my own story. So dig: I met this pretty girl in a college class a few months ago, and we instantly hit it off and started hanging out because of our common interests. She had a long-distance boyfriend, but the relationship was on the skids anyway, and she kept telling me how attracted she was to me. Eventually, right after she broke it off with her boyfriend, there was an evening of her and me making out and necking, and things seemed to be going very well. And then she dropped off the radar completely for two or three weeks. During that time, when I ''did'' talk to her, she seemed to be taking the breakup pretty badly. But she acted like she was still interested in me, except she wanted to take things slow, so I respected her wishes. Not long after (in fact, just recently), I started seeing her again, and last night she casually let it drop that she had a new boyfriend--some idiot who works at a TV station in St. Louis that she apparently had a thing for for five years--despite, you know, ''leading me on'' (and presumably her former boyfriend as well) the entire time. It wasn't the first time I'd fooled by a woman leading me on, and she seemed incredulous when I told her how I felt about it earlier today. Fact is, it's an utterly embarrassing experience, and yes, it does hurt.

This troper's ex, who she still sees around because they are involved in the same dance club at uni, appears to be this. They were at the same dance workshop three days after breaking up, and happened to be partners at one point in the rotation. They stayed in-position for the move that had just been taught, while the instructors demonstrated the next move - problem was, the position required standing side by side with the lead's arm around the follower's waist, and the ex further complicated this by holding troper flush against him, so that they were practically glued at the side. Three days after breaking off the relationship! Troper was very confused...

This troper's best friend loves to tease guys who like her when she doesn't feel the same way. Also, despite her being straight and my feelings for her she treats this troper exactly how she treats her boyfriend...

This troper's good friend is probably the nicest person she's ever met. We're excellent friends, but he tends to be a MasterOfTheMixedMessage; it sure doesn't help my crush on him any. It's been escalated UpToEleven now that he has a girlfriend, what with him now calling me beautiful and telling me how I seem to be the only one to understand him. I constantly wonder if it's just him being really nice and my BrokenBird -esque past is just keeping me from accepting that people can actually be ''that'' kind.

This troper knew a girl whom I met halfway through freshmen year in high school at a party. Now from the first meeting we hit it off quite well and I was slightly enamored by her seeing that I was not well versed in social skills. But we talked for days and days mostly in chats. I was quite afraid to tell her how I felt for fear that she would rebuff me as many have before but soon found out that she liked me as well (which wasn't evident to me at first even with all the flirting she did). However she was in a 'unhealthy' relationship with another person in which she told me that she'd like time to deal with that before we could become anything. Hence comes my waiting for 2 months before talking to her again to find that she "no longer feels that way" and a month later leaves to boarding school with little to no clarification. Needless to say I was devastated

This troper has a best guy friend who may or may not bebe bi instead of outright gay as he says he is. Kind of hard to tell. Anyway, this troper's best friend also had a crush on him at the beginning of the school year. This troper hooked the two friends up and watched the two of them be happy together for 7 months. Then, the male friend broke up with the female friend because he thought he was gay. Then, male friend tells this troper that she's the only person he can talk to and how he considers her to be one of his best friends. He than later says how he wishes he could have a boyfriend. Later he plays with this troper's hair, then tells this troper one of the boys in their class is cute. He even asks this troper two days in a row to come over to his house to either, a) have tea with him or b) have dinner with him. This troper is now uber-confused and cannot tell if she is a {{Fag Hag}} or just plain stupid.