I’m a girl and I have a guy friend who wants to move past the friend zone with me, but I really really just want to stay friends and nothing more. I have no idea how to tell him this politely without hurting his feelings because he is very sensitive. I keep declining his invitations to do things together with excuses, but I think he’s taking it as I’m playing hard to get. Help! Advice desperately needed.
This is always such a tough spot to be in, and I totally get where you’re coming from. That being said, I think you need to be fairly straightforward in telling him you’re not interested in being in a relationship with him. Putting off confronting him might result in him feeling like you were leading him on, and I think you’d agree that he doesn’t deserve that. But you also deserve to be happy, so if he’s truly a good friend, you should be able to speak to him about this openly and he should respect your decision. I would try explaining something along the lines of not wanting to lose him as a friend, because it’s easy to go from friendship to a relationship but near impossible to go backwards from there. Best of luck to you both.
That dude is salty af lol. You should just tell him. If he has some sense, he will realize that most couples don’t talk after dating and breaking up, though they may start as best friends.
Just tell him outright that you are not interested in anything but friendship with him, and tell him that if he can’t handle that, then you need to not be friends anymore. However, prepare for him to indeed by “salty af”, because some gentlemen cannot fathom the idea of being friends just to be friends