Best friends dilemma

<p>so for all you people out there who have best friends of the opposite gender, have you ever felt a bit too close to your friend? in other words, how does one know if one just thinks of the other as a incredibly close friend and nothing more than that..where is the line that separates you thinking of him/her as a friend and you thinking of him/her as something more, a crush per se. it's kinda weird for me..ive been extremely close to this one girl friend(notice the space) since 6th grade, and now, ending 11th in 2 weeks, i cant help but feel a bit different about her since the past 1/2 year or so. with ap classes to balance along with ec's and a social life, idk what to conclude from this.</p>

<p>anyone been in my situation before?...</p>

<p>bump
10char</p>

<p>Welcome to the friendzone. /thread</p>

<p>I could relate to this a lot. Do you plan on telling her that you like her or are you going to keep it to yourself?</p>

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Too early to say, until whatkneww answers FlyEagle17’s question.</p>

<p>i want to tell her, but i dont want our current friendship to change…smh high school problems</p>

<p>bumpity bumpbump</p>

<p>Oh boy…</p>

<p>And how do you think she feels about you?</p>

<p>no idea -.- but i always get her to smile haha. we help each other out in any situation, no matter how busy each one of us is, even if it’s 2:30 in the morning. it works out pretty well since for the last two years, we’ve been in all the same classes or always shared the same teachers.
what im trying to ask here is…what do you think is the best way to win her over, cause im a bit reluctant about telling her directly and seeing if she is in accord</p>

<p>[You’ll</a> appreciate this](<a href=“The Six Ways You'll Try to Get Out of the Friend Zone - YouTube”>The Six Ways You'll Try to Get Out of the Friend Zone - YouTube) and maybe glean some wisdom from it. :D</p>

<p>I don’t really see much of a point in telling her at this point…I mean, you’ll both presumably go to college in a year anyway and you’d have to break up. There’s no reason to potentially make things awkward now.</p>

<p>Personally, I’d risk anything for love. Do you believe that she is interested at all? You usually can tell.</p>

<p>Heartbreak is part of growing older, and you never know… True, it could end badly, but life has risk and maybe it would be an amazing relationship!</p>

<p>Imagine if you never tell her, that opportunity lost might be more painful in the end. </p>

<p>I find you end up regretting the things you DON’T do, rather than the things you do. ;)</p>

<p>-psy</p>

<p>If you know you are in the friendzone, thoroughly advise you not to break it. It makes everything soo much more awkward. If you absolutely need to tell them to feel okay though, please don’t consistently asking why you two can’t be together. Just say how you feel and not force anything onto your friend. Repeat, DO NOT force anything on your friend. This will just make them think you’re insane. Hope this helps!</p>

<p>Do you value your continued friendship more than the small chance of taking it further?</p>

<p>yeah i think having a strong and lasting friendship is more important…it’s so hard being in this situation :stuck_out_tongue: in limbo</p>

<p>I think you should express your interest… I mean, why not?
She might be the one… and if she isn’t, your friendship will probably be fine eventually. Anyway, it seems like you’re very close, so maybe she has feelings for you too.</p>

<p>Take her out to dinner (somewhere nice) after studying with her one night… See how she acts and reacts. Go from there.</p>

<p>Help me understand… what does someone “risk” by unpretentiously telling a good friend how he feels for her?</p>

<p>I already have some answers in mind that this question would likely receive from someone who misread the question, so no surprise if that happens.</p>

<p>@Halogen…well if she doesn’t feel the same way it could potentially make the friendship awkward for at least a little bit. If they are this good of friends it’d probably be fine in the long run (but you never know) but it would probably be awkward for a little bit.</p>

<p>bumpp
so does anyone watch wongfu productions on youtube?..watching “when it counts” is essentially the same situation i had…i was so busy paying attention to another girl that i did not realize that my best friend was the one who i truly like…but now i do. the sad part is, she used to like me but saw that i didnt appear to think of her that way and moved on.
-.- am i the only who has ever gone through this situation?</p>