I have always considered flirting to be basic human nature, innate within all of us in how we interact with members of the opposite sex, especially people we are attracted to.
There is a clear line between flirting with someone and hitting on them. Hitting on someone shows intent to take it further, while I believe flirting does not. It could be a simple compliment, extended eye contact or catching their gaze across a room and smiling at them. It might be an attractive stranger talking to you at a bar, but you don't say you are in a relationship until actually asked, because you like the attention.
I've recently been told by my S.O that I need to stop flirting with women to save our relationship, as she thinks I get too much attention. Yet, I feel that by agreeing to this, I would be denying what I am as a man, and destroying the one small thing I have still been able to enjoy occasionally in relation to the opposite sex outside of my relationship, and that is being made to feel attractive.
Everybody likes to feel attractive and be complimented, and I am not insecure about her flirting with men. So long as it is subtle, shows no intent and does not lead anywhere. She maintains she does not, and therefore is not flirted with or shown interest in by men. I believe this maybe a slight exaggeration..
What do you all think, especially women?