A friend I know has a problem . . .

[James]

Ok.

So I know this girl.

She met this guy on some dating site like match.com. She has been talking to him for like 1.5 months and is sort of crushing on him.

They talk several times a week, text, IM, email, phone.

The problem: He hasn't asked her out to meet.

She wants to know if that means he doesn't like her?

She also wants to know how she can get him to ask her out.

He lives about an hour away, and travels a lot for work.

I can already hear some of the strong willed women on the site saying: "Just ask him out!" And I agree that would solve the problem, but she isn't going to do that.

She views herself as a more traditional girl so can't be direct here, so I suppose in Girl World she has to manipulate him into asking her out in some subtle round about fashion.

So what should she do?