What does it mean when a man says to a woman "you are mysterious"?

It means he’s having a harder time reading what you’re thinking/feeling than he has had with other women… and I don’t know the context in which he said it, but I’ve told someone that in the past, and it was definitely a good thing.

Agreed. I imagine it means he hasn’t decided he’s figured you out, you continue to be interesting or fascinating to him, he enjoys that he doesn’t completely understand you.

Questions for GD Kimble and Zaku: Do you think his interest in her will disappear once he figures her out? In other words, is the mystery the only thing she has going for her?

It could be a nice way of saying “I don’t trust you. ”

That he’s a master of stating the obvious: women are mysterious.

It stokes me as a not too strange thing for a boy to say to a girl, opposite genders can be awfully unpredictable sometimes… So it need not be seen as a great profound statement!

@jz1220: I can hardly imagine mystery is the only thing she has going for her, unless it’s a very great mystery, in which case I think she’d know what he was talking about. ;-)
Meanwhile, I know almost nothing about either of them, not even how he said that, so I can hardly guess what’ll happen if and when she stops being mysterious for him. Also, mysteriousness can be maintained. But, it’s certainly possible – often people are attracted to each other by something that changes later on, so the attraction fades. So, it can be a gift to your lover (and yourself) to figure out and maintain what attracts them to you.

@joshuaezra: True, and it’s not “too strange” in any case. The question though is simply what if anything does it likely mean, is it good or bad for their relationship, and this isn’t only the usual condition of “guy doesn’t understand girl.” Here they’ve been dating for a few months, he chose to say, “you are mysterious” to her in a way that inspired her to ask about it here. So, I’m just saying, seems like a good sign of interest. By contrast, it’s not the more common, “I don’t get you and I don’t care.”

For the sake of clarity, though, we really don’t know. It could also be it’s just something he’s saying to make her wonder (seems to have worked)...

When it comes to mystery there isn’t much other then a man will never understand the way a woman thinks nor will she really understand the way a man thinks. Neither is good or bad but gets pretty confuseing when one says “It’s bed time” meaning to go to sleep and the other can say the same and have an all together idea about it. That’s the mystery!!!

It means :he is trying to know more about her beacuse he’s interested in or because his lack inf about her.

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