<p>So here's the deal, I have zero experience with relationships since I just did not care about that kind of stuff in high school and wasn't really comfortable with the people around me, but now that I'm in college and thrown into a different environment where I've learned so much and met so many different, amazing people, I think that in my group of friends, I may be starting to fall for someone. And I haven't realized until now how naive I've been about relationships.</p>
<p>It's kind of weird (for me at least) because I've seriously never felt so strongly about someone like this until now, and it's so amazing yet confusing at the same time. It's nice because there are times where all I really want is to just be next to him and see him smile/laugh, and there are also times where I feel that it just won't work out in the end even if we did get into a relationship because our personalities may be a little too opposites (thought to be honest, there are times where I've felt like we had the same unique habits/ways of expressing ourselves and we both can still talk to each other without it being too awkward, sooooo I'm not sure?).</p>
<p>People have told me to just straight-up ask him, but after hearing some conversations about relationships with our group of friends, he's hinted at stuff like how it'll feel too awkward in the end for both parties if the relationship doesn't work out in the end and it'll never be the same ever again, how you need to hint it out to someone that you like them before asking, and etc. The way he talked in those conversations he sounded like he would be caught too off guard if someone asked him out out in the blue and that a relationship would work better if the two people were best friends (and though I wouldn't say we're "best friends", we are definitely "close friends"). I've thought about doing the hinting out part, but the problem is, I'm not sure how to do it in a way where most of our actions would be considered "close friends" rather than "Hey I kinda like you, wanna go out?". Like the asking him out for dinner example, I can't exactly do that because ALL of our friends do that to each other just because we don't like eating alone. And I'm worried about doing small stuff like putting my head on his shoulder because he is a bit of a reserved person and I don't want to invade his personal space or be too touchy-feely if he's going to be uncomfortable with it.</p>
<p>Anybody have some words of advice for me about what to do really? All this is so perplexing that sometimes I feel like dealing with falling for someone is harder than all my midterms combined haha!</p>