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A friend and I hooked up... but is the attraction for real?

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Question - (27 July 2006) 1 Answers - (Newest, 28 July 2006)
A female , anonymous writes:

One of my best friends and I met awhile back. The catch is, we both initially had mutual feelings there for each other at that point, as I had liked her a lot for a while before we ever spoke, and so did she. But we both were in relationships, so nothing came of it.

We each worked really hard to push our feelings for each other aside, and develop a friendship, which we did because she's one of my best friends now. But just the other night, about two weeks ago, we were hanging out, and she flat-out admitted that she still liked me a lot, and wanted to leave her partner for me.

She said that she wanted me to kiss her, and that she'd had feelings for me since day one, but had to hide them. We wound up hooking up that night, but I immediately felt bad about it afterwards, and said that it shouldn't happen again, as I had a relationship and so did she. But she told me that if I didn't want it to happen again, it would be up to me to stop her because she would want it.

Anyway, over the course of these two weeks, my feelings for her have deepened, and I wanted to potentially see if she still likes me. But she confessed to her girlfriend what had happened between us, and asked for her forgiveness and they are still together. We've taken some time apart to try and get our feelings for each other in check and calm them down again, but I feel like she still likes me. Tell me if you think these are signs of her still having feelings.

We always talk about how "funny" it would be if we began dating, saying things like "it would never work" or "you'd drive me insane," etc. which I take as a potential front she puts up, which really might mean she still likes me.

She always shoves me or finds some way of touching me in a joking manner.

She's always all smiles when we're hanging out and make eye contact. And we pay for each other when we go out.

I guess in my mind, if she didn't still like me, we wouldn't joke about what happened between us, let alone still flirt at all. Nor would she have told me that it would be up to me to stop us from hooking up again.

How can I tell if she's still into me? What do you think?

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A female reader, xcherryx United Kingdom +, writes (28 July 2006):

xcherryx agony aunttalk to her! ask how she feels and tell her how u feel. u obviously have feelings for her and she cant loose feelings like that over night. nothing ever gets understood unless u dont speak. good luck x

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