Does anyone else find it harder to make eye contact with someone they are romantically interested in?

Like many autistic people, I hate eye contact. I find myself focusing more on maintaining eye contact than on the actual conversation with a person because it’s so taxing. With masking, I can still do eye contact fairly well with people I’m not that close with. But I have found people that are hardest to make eye contact with are people I have romantic interest. A lot of flirting includes non verbal signals like eye contact so this is not ideal. Does anyone else struggle with this and if so do you have any strategies to get around it?