self-referential has_and_belong_to_many

Im having trouble developing the database structure for the following scenario. I have a table that only contains 2 fields for each object. It has a admirer_id and an admired_id. There is also a user table. Now all I want to do is go through the admirers table and for each admired_id, take the corresponding admirer_id and collect all the users that have a corresponding user_id to this admirer_id. Im having trouble setting up the database relationships and how I should go about this in general. I think this may involve using a self- referential has_and_belongs_to_many relationship? Any help/advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :wink: