Are you good at reading people?

I am curious how good different people are at 'reading' others and correctly assess their emotions and feelings towards them. Somehow I find that over time my sense of others' emotions seem to be getting...worse? It would be natural for social skills to get better over time, but it doesn't feel like it. Or maybe I've just met some peculiar people. I've never really doubted my own intuition. For most of my late teens, when a guy has seemed genuinely interested, he has been. If I have seemed to "hit it off" with a girl, we have grown to become friends. Even if negative terms, if I felt a group presentation didn't go well, this was reflected in the grade. But I've come across a few situations lately that have made me doubt myself. I was looking for a spare room in London and went to see it. There were quite a bit of people there. I spoke to all the girls living there and we had a great conversation, laughed and seem to get along great. One of them asked me if I was interested and when I could move in. I got back to her later and never heard back. They ignored both responses I gave. On another occasion I did feel like I had a great job interview and never heard back. Don't get me wrong - this is not about 'rejection' in general. Everybody needs to be comfortable with being turned down. But I think a lot of the time when someone is hanging on to these feelings it is because they are puzzled and didn't see it coming. I wouldn't say i misunderstand situations most of the time. But I am curious what makes this happen. I am sure I am not the only one, as I very often read threads by people who experience this much more often than I do - along the lines of "we had a great date, why did I never hear back?". If you have grown to 'read' people better, how did that happen? Are some people just born with a great intuition?

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