Hello, I have been in love with my best friend for 4 years, and I have loved him for more than 3 years. During these 4 years we both had relationships, he was in love, I not so much. I recently ended a pretty serious relationship, almost an engagement, but I refused because I love another man (4 months ago, to be exact). My best friend and I have always had a very strong relationship, we finish our sentences, the same style of dress, the same interests, the same sense of humor, only the professions are not the same, but we have always understood each other a lot and we have fought 1-2 times, and for my then friend, that he was not for me and that I should not give him such freedom that he did not respect me and deserve all kinds of them. Ever since I broke up with my boyfriend, the person in question has increased his contacts with me, we are together every day, we plan our days in relation to the other, he is kinder than ever and definitely confuses me. There are a few problems I don't share my feelings with: 1) I'm not his type outwardly. He likes tall and thin girls, preferably with blond hair. I'm short, I'm not very thin and I have pretty dark hair. The bad thing is that he compliments me on my appearance, said I look, quotes: "wonderful". Some time ago he had put me in his list of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen. He doesn't compliment in principle, but he can do it because I'm his friend, I know. I note that I have self-confidence, I do not ask for compliments and I do not grumble about my appearance. The compliments were said like this, over a beer in the park, when I'm without makeup and in a suit. 2) The other thing that confuses me is that until some time ago he was confused about a girl and we talked a lot about it, but in the end we haven't discussed it at all for almost a month. When I ask, the answer is that he seems to have suggested that he was in love with her and probably not. 3) Suddenly he changed his mind that it is important to have attraction, not appearance or type. Years ago, he was 100% sure he wouldn't cheat on his character, just convinced he wouldn't look at a woman like me, almost. He told me tactfully. (He is very delicate and tactful, he is not a very direct person, so I am also confused) 4) It also confuses me that when we visit his parents, they are much kinder to me. It's like I'm more special, and they weren't like that before, definitely. We soon talked and he asked me (very delicately, of course) if I had sex with another man since I broke up with my ex. I am and I confessed to him. He laughed, played a few tricks, and that's it. Since then we only write to each other and not every day and we hear each other on the phone from time to time. I don't know if he has a relationship, I can suggest, he reacts very calmly and cheerfully when I told him, although I know that he is good at hiding emotions. I know for sure that he had no feelings for me before, but if a year ago I was 100% sure of this fact, I am now 70%. It seems different, confused and much more cheerful than usual. I'm not in love, I'm not in love, so for me he is really very special. Ever since I met him, looking him in the eye and it was as if time was slowing down, which I didn't know was really happening, I thought. that is only an added effect in romantic movies. It was weird because I didn't even find it attractive, on the contrary. Strange feeling, that's what people call "chemistry". I will be happy to read such stories and how you proceeded, and also, I will be grateful for advice from more experienced than me, I am only 24, life is ahead of me and I am a little disoriented. To the question: Is it worth ruining your friendship with him by sharing your feelings with him? Do I confuse friendship with interest in me? Thank you, good people, you are my only hope, none of my friends have had such a thing happen to them.
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There may be other sympathies for you besides friendship. Does he have other girlfriends who are not his visual type for a woman? If there is, even one - then it is one of the few men who are able to have a real friendship with a woman without liking her sexually. If it's not just you, then it's like most men, and there are other sympathies for you, because a man does not maintain a relationship with a woman who does not like even a little visually. Men told me that. They always think they have a chance to have sex with a woman, even if she's not their type, but she's not ugly, of course. And whether the friendship will suffer depends. I have acquaintances who consider themselves so-called privileged friends and they communicate as friends, but have sex sometimes, they are both okay, but my husband shared something ugly about it, I quote - I deserve more from her (ie. some more beautiful, some of his type). Such a statement ... is not very friendly, but he behaves well with her, he is a gentleman, they often go to the hut for sex, otherwise he is very busy with work, plus that he has high requirements and can't like himself. a woman for a long relationship, there are only short ones, but she has been having sex with her friend for a long time ... I think he's just afraid to get really engaged. Your ... if you can, go visit his parents again, watch them, only through them you will understand, ask his mother about him, she knows him best, what a boy he was, his actions towards his exes, what girlfriends he had. In fact, what does his mother look like? Many men have their mothers as an ideal, at least my observations are like that, except for a girl with a brainwashed porn, he liked redheads, green-eyed / blue-eyed, models with freckles and skin, neither his mother is like that, nor is it full in Bulgaria with such .. . and shine on dreams ... Talk to him about other women, do you have a girlfriend, even encourage him, tell him - a man like you, he should not be alone, we need to find you a girlfriend, a beautiful, tall blonde ... And watch his reaction. If he is disguised, he will make fun of him, but if you are insistent in your desire to find him a girlfriend, there are two options - to decide that you think he is a scumbag and to be ambitious, to find oneself to show you that he is not. is smotlyo, or to get tired of him and tell you that he wants you. By no means admit your feelings to him, but work on him, even sadistically, caress his ego, then push him away. If he has feelings for you, he will be even more attracted, if not - he will ask you something like - what's wrong with you, you behave strangely (as if you are sick and he is a worried friend) .... unless is a good actor, then you can outdo each other. Yet,