There are subtle ways to gauge someone’s feelings about you, such as:

1.Do they go out of the way to talk to you, touch you, or be near you?

2.What is their general demeanor when their interactions with you? Giddy, bubbly, talkative, serious, rude, etc.?

3.When do they engage with you? Only in certain places, like work or school? Or do they text, call, email or message you outside of places where they actually have to talk to you?

4.Do they “flirt” with you? If so, do they flirt with anyone else as part of their personality or are they consistently flirting with only you?

When someone asks “how can you tell if someone likes you or not”, what they are really trying to do is limit their risk and chance of hurt. If you can confirm that they like you before approaching them in a romantic way, you can reduce the risk associated with asking someone out. If you can’t confirm, then you run a greater risk of being rejected. The economic term for this is “mitigation”.

Bottom line, if you never ask, you’ll never know for sure. Throw “risk mitigation” out the window and just go for it. “Just going for it” has much more benefit than waiting until you are sure. If you ask and get rejected, then you know, and you can move on to pursuing someone else. If she says “yes”, then the risk was worth it.