Someone can miss you and still avoid you.
They can feel attracted to you and still hesitate to pursue a relationship. They can care about what happens to you while knowing they don't want to be together.
To someone on the receiving end, these contradictions can be difficult to understand. If the feelings are there, why don't the actions match?
The answer is that human emotions don't always point in a single direction.
A person might want closeness but fear the vulnerability that comes with it. They might feel drawn to someone while believing the relationship wouldn't work. They might miss the comfort of a familiar connection without wanting to rebuild it.
These feelings can coexist, even when they lead to conflicting behavior.
This is one reason relationship questions can be more complicated than they first appear. Asking whether someone has feelings for you doesn't necessarily tell you whether they want a relationship, whether they're willing to pursue one, or whether they believe it would be right for them.
Those are separate questions.
In a tarot reading, exploring someone's feelings can involve looking at different aspects of their emotional state rather than reducing everything to a single answer. Attraction, affection, fear, resentment, and hesitation aren't interchangeable, and they don't always cancel one another out.
Of course, mixed feelings don't explain every instance of inconsistent behavior. Someone's actions may reflect circumstances that have little to do with their emotions, and a tarot reading cannot establish another person's private thoughts as fact.
What matters is recognizing that emotional complexity and relationship readiness are not the same thing.