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Tom Foolery
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How should i go about this?

I have a friend that I like a lot, but I’m not sure she likes me back. We are good friends, but I want to be more than just friends. How can i tell if she likes me. Is the fact that she told me about a guy she likes and how they had a great time at a school gathering a certainty that she just sees me as a friend or is there still a chance that she likes me. I’m getting mixed messages from her, one minute she will be telling me about how she adores me and the next about a guy she likes. Im so confused. I dont know if i should continue to pursue her or put some distance between us.

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pamark offline Verified User (3 years) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Rogers, AR, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (3 minutes after post)

just talk to her about what you are feeling and see what becomes of it.

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Lisboa, 14, PT | 2 years, 6 months ago (7 minutes after post)

Step it up to her. Life’s too short and you’ll regret not having seized an opportunity when you had it.

if she doesn’t feel the same way, you might get hurt but that’ll pass.

:p I definitely would not follow fraggedmeme’s advice …

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Tom Foolery offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
Lake Placid, FL, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (10 minutes after post)

Well the thing is, i dont want our relationship to get awkward. We are in the same class 3 days a week and i like hanging out with her. Im afriad that if i get too aggressive, she will feel uncomfortable around me.

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 years, 6 months ago (24 minutes after post)

Share with her what you’ve shares in this post… Talk to her about it…

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Rogers, AR, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (1 hour, 27 minutes after post)

frag frag frag…. honey no clubbing either!!

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Rogers, AR, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (1 hour, 28 minutes after post)

Frag, I leave for a few minutes and your right back to violence, what are we going to do with you?!

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Elliott Heads, 04, AU | 2 years, 6 months ago (1 hour, 29 minutes after post)

she likes you, because that is what i do with this guy i like. go for it boy!

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Lake Placid, FL, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (2 hours, 12 minutes after post)

Great, this helped a lot, thanks for the advice. Now i just need to work up the nerve to make a move.

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Rogers, AR, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (2 hours, 14 minutes after post)

yep go talk to her, she’ll be cool about it if you are. Good luck!!

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eqspike offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 8 #
US | 2 years, 6 months ago (10 hours, 50 minutes after post)

Here’s the thing. Maybe you should talk to her, but that doesn’t automatically mean you should just do it.

If you are too nervous and strange about it, you will come off awkward, and you won’t have been yourself.

The difficulty is that the situation is nerve wracking. Start it off as casually as possible, and don’t make any long speech about it. When you make a long speech about it, they get the idea about half-way through the speech and then they just want you to spit it out and the rest of your speech is anti-climatic. Then you can be thrown because you thought you had a great speech, and once the plan goes differently than you believed it would, it could shake your confidence.

So try and be casual and use few words to talk to her. If it goes well she should make you feel more relaxed by her reaction. Then you can expound on your feelings with parts of the speech a little at a time as the conversation goes forward.

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Tom Foolery offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
Lake Placid, FL, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (15 hours, 20 minutes after post)

Just as an update, i talked to her today, It was really hard(if it wasn’t for some random guy asking for directions in the middle of our convo i might have lost it). But i told her my feelings and sadly, she doesnt feel the same way but does see me as a great friend. the good news is she doesnt feel awkward about it(she has been through it before actually) and i have a feeling that our friendship will become stronger because i can finally talk openly to her and such. It feels great to have all this weight lifted off my shoulders. I still like her and i will always be there for her, i can only hope that one day she will see me in a different light, but im not gonna base my life off of that thought.

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eqspike offline Verified User (2 years, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 8 #
US | 2 years, 6 months ago (15 hours, 34 minutes after post)

Well it sounds like it worked out in the 2nd best possible method. Even though it wasn’t perfect, you are still in a better place than you were. That’s great. Congrats for being so brave, and doing it.

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Gerrardstown, WV, US | 2 years, 6 months ago (18 hours, 3 minutes after post)

come right out and tell her how you feel!!!

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