lost help: I’ve started having feelings for my best friend two years ago.

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I’ve started having feelings for my best friend two years ago.

We got closer and the feelings grew. A couple months back he admitted he started having increasing feelings for me too. The main problem. He has a girlfriend. He’s been with her for over a year. Every time I see them together it hurts so bad but I never wanted to risk my friendship so I tried to be happy for them. But things have gotten bad. There relationship is a long distance one currently and things have been strained. As for us, the line of what is okay and what isn’t has been buried and I have no idea how I should even act anymore. We edit our words around each other but things have been slipping out more and more. So badly I want to tell him that he belongs with me, but then I worry that what if I’m not good enough for him. I’m so afraid I’m going to ruin his life. But now I don’t think I can deal with it anymore. My chest has been killing me for the past week and I’m chalking it up to stress. The only way I can see myself moving on from this is to cut him from my life. But that scares me so much. I’m scared for my health and for my sanity. I really think you can die from a broken heart. I don’t know what to do anymore.

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ScarofLo18 32 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 weeks ago (26 minutes after post)

I’m going through something very similar. I’m so sorry :( It’s extremely hard and you feel helpless. I sometimes wonder if cutting him out of my life would be easier but I went without speaking to him for three years and it killed me on the inside. I don’t want to go through that again so the only thing i can tell you, from experience, is to not let him go. If you think you’re crushed now, you’ll be crushed even more if you do that.

If you ever need to talk, you can always talk to me if you want to add me. It would be nice to have someone to talk to that is going through the exact same thing.

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An Unknown Location | 4 weeks ago (1 hour, 51 minutes after post)

What a beautiful love story. But I think you already know what to do.
In your own words, you said he was having feelings for you too.

How about this….Look “joe”….I am giving him a name….I like you….I like you
alot…but it seems you have this girlfriend…..and I don’t want to get in the way.
say….
“But Joe, if it doesn’t work out with “xyz”….please, give me a call cause I think you are a really special guy. I feel so conneced with you and I would like to get to know a lot more.”

This is the key….turn around and walk away. I will almost guarantee that this man will come running after you and hold you in his arms and kiss you..and break up with this long distance love affair.

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jk883 0 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks ago (10 hours, 51 minutes after post)

thanks to both of you. this helps a lot. i’ve tried walking away before and it really did hurt so much. i’ve also tried dating other guys to try and forget him but for some reason i could never make a connection with anyone else. i told myself i’d wait until the end of this month and then i was going to put a stop to it because i can’t just keep waiting. hopefully i can find the strength to do this. it helps talking it out. thanks again

ScarofLo18 32 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 weeks ago (19 hours, 6 minutes after post)

Anytime :)

I keep saying to myself that i’ll get over him but I never do. I told him how I felt because he asked me once but he never told me how he felt. It drives me crazy because I don’t know how he feels about me. It’s like he pushes me away and when I get to the point where I stop trying he pulls me back in and acts like he wants me but then when we get too close he pushes me away again. It’s like this over and over.

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jk883 0 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks ago (21 hours, 30 minutes after post)

I know exactly how that feels. It’s so scary how parallel our situations are. I have my moments where I’m doing so good and I stop thinking about him and I stop wanting to see him all the time. And then he does something or says something that just breaks down everything I accomplished. I should probably also mention we work together so it’s not like I can just stop seeing him.

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An Undisclosed Location | 4 weeks ago (21 hours, 43 minutes after post)

That’s how it is with me. I’m currently in the mood to not see him or think about him which means something will probably happen soon to make me want to so I know exactly how that is. I go to church with him. I could choose not to go there but have a lot of friends that i’ve grown close to there and I don’t want to leave them because that’s the place I only see them. it stinks :(

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jk883 0 #
An Unknown Location | 4 weeks ago (21 hours, 49 minutes after post)

Well, we need to be strong together.

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An Undisclosed Location | 3 weeks, 6 days ago (1 day, 21 hours after post)

Yes we do :)

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