Is it a mistake to talk to a girl in riddles?

There is this Russian girl that I know who lives in America. She has lived here most of her life but she goes back to visit every year. I like her very much. I am quite shy. She is my friend. I am on several dating sites. One of these sites is a site about women in Russia. I gave my friend the password and login name so she could help me out. She agreed but she seems to think that it means that I do not like her as a girlfriend. I did ask her for help but I was also hoping that she would see the fact that I am willing to trust her with such personal secrets as a sign that I am very interested in her. I am 100 times as interested in her as any girl on the site. Did I make a mistake in trying to tell her in a riddle? I wanted the riddle to be easy enough for her to understand the compliment yet also hard enough to understand that I would not be humiliated if she does not share my feelings.

Well, I think it’s a girls’ thing to talk to boys in riddles. Then, I don’t know how ‘russian’ she is after having lived several years outside her home country, anyway… being a russian girl, i can tell you that what you did was in no way a riddle, it was a clear as day statement that you like (trust, respect, you name it) her as a friend, period. Nothing romantic involved. When a guy says to a girl ‘i’m on a dating site, ok? what do you think of those chicks who keep spamming me? ha-ha?” there’s only one picture i can think of – good old friens sitting next to each other with beers in hand (if you came of age of course), telling dirty jokes and laughing out.

Documentary ‘From Russia, My Love’, Trailer