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In a fading relationship - growing feelings for a friend. Where do I stand?

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Question - (2 August 2010) 1 Answers - (Newest, 18 August 2010)
A male United States age 30-35, anonymous writes:

So I have been with my girlfriend for a little over three years. We have our ups and downs like any relationship. Some days are very blissful, with many good memories to remember for the rest of my life. Other days, not so much, just painful scars in a rough time in our relationship. But still, we get through.

I love her, I really do. She means the world to me! She's my everything. However, lately it seems that, maybe the rough times outnumber the good times. I don't know... it's hard to explain.

I'm very close to all my friends, but one in particular has evolved into something more personal. Every time I have a rough time in my relationship, I tell her. She affirms my already weakened battered heart from my current relationship. She's also having trouble too, and I try to give her to the best of my knowledge, a man's perspective of the situation.

Today, she came up to me for help. I gave my ears and listened to her pour out her feelings about the burden and stress of her life and boyfriend. We talked for a while and she started asking me personal questions about my relationship. I couldn't answer some of them. I'm getting mixed feelings about her now though, I feel jealous, I feel envious of her boyfriend. I shouldn't though...

I don't know if she likes me. I don't know if she feels the same way I do. But today, we got close. There, in the facial expressions of her eyes and smiles I saw her for the first time it seems. I realized I liked her, that I have feelings, intimate, that should not be there. I've become protective, even happy in a gloomy day when she's present.

I have feelings for her... I realized that today. I'm so confused of these emotions!

It's just so... damn.

It has consumed my every thought today... Is this, normal?

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A female reader, misfitschik66 Canada +, writes (18 August 2010):

misfitschik66 agony auntMy story is very close to yours.. and this is it

This is the story of how i met the love of my life

February 3rd my boyfriend soon to be husband the next year left the province to look for work to support us after a month we were ready for me to follow him out to where he was residing

March fourth i set out to the airport in the city .. little to my knowledge my true love was getting on a plane in the same airport going to the same place i was same airport BUT the catch is that i was leaving that city to go to another one.... and so was he.. to the same city

I got there march 4th late at night i was tired and my boyfriend picked me up. The next day i was expected to go out and look for employment

I found a job at a call center and the start date was for March 19th .....so was my true love!

coincidence? who knows

We started the same day in the same class. I sat two seats down from him and when he mentioned where he was from i immediately informed "I'm from that area too"!

We got along great, he became my best friend , we did everything together

The feeling were beginning to build, I didn't know if he liked me or not so i kept my feelings inside for 4 months. I didn't know that he had also felt the same.

One day i couldn't take it anymore i wrote a note and stuck it in his pocket , he wrote a note back to me the next day three times as long explaining how much he adored me and his feelings for me.

We soon had come up with a plan to leave back home together after i broke it off with my boyfriend (it was definitely a very hard decision to make and to even do considering i was with him for 3 and a 1/2 years and was engaged to this man whom i loved very much but i knew i couldn't hurt him by liking some other man so i had to leave)

June 13th we went into the city to catch our plane back home, we held hands the whole way and in the middle of the night he confessed that he loved me

Now we live together after being together for a year our relationship is passionate and romantic he is the best thing in my life and the best person i know... he is also still my very best friend

were getting married in may 2011

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