When I decided to lose weight, hire a trainer, and hit the gym every day, I occasionally saw this really hot guy who made me dizzy because he was so gorgeous. I thought he was straight and utterly unapproachable, so I only watched from afar and admired.
One day, however, when I went into the locker room after working out, I discovered he was undressing and putting his things into a locker very close to mine. I stood frozen in my proverbial tracks, uncertain what to do. All of a sudden, he turned to find me staring at him and had what I thought was an angry look on his face. He took a few steps toward me and I thought he was going to get in my face for "looking" at him "that way."
I quickly covered my horror by lying and saying I felt a little light-headed. He suddenly got a very concerned look and gently suggested I lie down on the bench. Here I thought he was angry at me but in fact he was being terribly kind. He said he noticed I had been really working out a lot and the results were showing but that I shouldn't push myself too hard. I thought this guy would never speak to me, and he turned out to be the sweetest guy in the world who spoke first. (He actually was quite shy, as I learned, and self-conscious about his heavy accent and mediocre English.)
Long story short, he came up to me and talked every time he saw me at the gym after that. At some point I learned he had been a personal trainer full-time until recently but still had a few clients on the side. I told him I was going to fire my personal trainer and asked if he would moonlight as mine. Because he wanted to improve his English, he agreed and started working out with me twice a week in exchange for me helping him with his language skills. During that time, I was dumbstruck to learn he was gay and had recently had a very bad breakup with his boyfriend.
With time, our friendship grew into something extraordinary. I now share my life, my love, and my bed with this fantastic man. He made the first move, an inadvertent one, but had we never spoke, I would never have met the love of my life.
Shawn1 is dead-on right. Be bold.