Some advice and ideas please?

[fujitsum]

Righto...

I am 20 and like a girl at work, we get on very well, are good friends from work(only known her about 6 months though) and I am pretty sure she likes me back - as told by one of her friends and the way she acts towards and around me, and the fact that we text pretty much every day...

Now the problem, in 7 days she goes away on a 5 month cruise and I'd like some advice on what to do, her friend who I am very good friends with too, says make sure I tell her how I feel but I don't want to ruin or cause any awkwardness for her, or between us before she goes away, on the other hand I don't want to leave it and miss the opportunity? I Really like her, and I think she likes me, but being "together" for about 5 days and then leaving the country for half a year seems a bit strange to me.

The other thing is I'd like to do something for valentines day but she's obviously not going to be here, giving a pink card and saying don't open this till the 14th may give things away and is not really a surprise, so any ideas on what to do on the 14th, purely by phone/email/pictures - Not really how I want it to be done but needs must...!

We get quite close at work, but as of yet nothing has happened, I am tempted to ask her out one evening over this next week and see where conversation takes us....

Any advice or ideas welcome

Thanks.

[Rowen]

Maybe this is just me, but why would you want to get involved with someone you work with? Ever hear the saying, "Don't shit where you eat"?

[fujitsum]

Maybe this is just me, but why would you want to get involved with someone you work with? Ever hear the saying, "Don't shit where you eat"?

She has left work to go on the 5 month cruise, and is then changing jobs, so she will not work there anymore. Even so, I don't see a problem with it.

[basilandthyme]

Whatever you do, don't seek any type of commitment before she goes on her cruise. It's highly likely that she'll have a fling or two on the cruise....so just let her go and have fun.

If you are both single when she returns, then it's time to consider asking her out.

[fujitsum]

Thanks...I will try and meet up before she goes away, give her a bonvoyage card and little present of some kind I think.

[Lord Darkshire]

It's not worth it. She will be gone for 5 months so there is no point. She will be enjoying romantic opportunities on that ship, and it wouldn't be fair to express interest at this time. Gifts are for someone you are in a relationship with. If you start showering her in Valentines and stuff, it will send you straight into the friends zone. But that's my take on it, you do whatever. See you in 7 days when she has left.

[Boisdevie]

Thanks...I will try and meet up before she goes away, give her a bonvoyage card and little present of some kind I think.

Way way over the top. She's going away for 5 months. What really is the point? Pathetic.