Expert: Azure - 7/14/2006

Question
I have recently gone out with this guy who I thought was not at all my type.  I have really enjoyed hanging out with him. The more I was talking and hanging out with him the more interested I became.  I told him this and he expressed an interest in me as well.  After a couple of more dates he began not returning my calls, e-mails, or text messages...I assumed it was something I had done or said to sway his interest into uninterested.  Well after finally getting in touch with him after several weeks he invited me for dinner and drinks after work.  He told me that he really missed me, but the whole problem stemmed from me being his friend's little sister.  He said he had talked to a couple of our (my brother's and I ) mutual friends and they had advised him that if something was to go wrong or if we were to fall out that it would mess up his friendship with my brother.  I really do like this guy a lot how can I reassure him that is not the case and make him comfortable with this uneasy situation.

Answer
it's really between him and the brother; he should tell, not ask, the brother as to his dating you, and if your brother is a reasonable guy, he won't have any issue now, OR later, regardless of what happens, as it's none of his business; if your brother gives him a hard time, then you could step in and inform him it's none of his business..