My best friend likes another girl and now he's forgotten me
Question Posted Monday June 27 2011, 8:18 pm
I met my best friend in 2009, I Didn’t get close to him until October 2010, since then we have been inseparable. Phoning, texting or emailing each other constantly, since October, there hasn’t been a day where I haven’t spoken to him.
In February he told me he had feelings towards me, but not entirely, he was unsure of how he felt. I only saw him as a friend. Until April where I told him I felt the same that I was confused about how I felt towards him but we were still more friends.
Since then, he held my hand and held me close in his arms whenever we were alone, I knew we had crossed the friendship line
All our friends teased us about each other, since all we did was hang out together and talk to each other, wherever he was, I would be.
In may, I realised I had fallen for him and he had always told me to tell him if my feelings towards him changed, but I told him I wouldn’t because I was so scared of rejection.
I told him and he said he felt the same, of course I was overjoyed
Until a week later he told me he had changed his mind and didn’t feel the same and he only saw me as a friend.
I felt like I couldn’t trust him anymore, if he could change his mind in a couple of days
It took a couple of weeks and I thought I couldn’t bring it up anymore or it may lose our friendship
Last week he told me that he liked another girl and that he had completely fallen for her, since then he barely speaks to me, not even to say hi or ask how I‘m doing
Everything has changed, wwhen I ask him how he is doing, he answers with vague answers saying he’s feeling low and he won’t tell me what is happening
Its like he’s shut me out of his life, I realised the other day that I was putting more effort into keeping this friendship alive, more than him, so I gave up and now I barely speak to him
And today I may have asked him if he was still alive and he responded immediately and so I asked him if he hadn’t spoken to me because he was just ignoring me and he said
I don’t need you hating me too and he stopped responding
Can you please help me with what to do?
I feel like I’ve completely lost my best friend, I feel so lost and upset, I am so hurt but I miss him but feel that it’s the end. How do I cope?
[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Relationships category? Maybe give some free advice about: Love Life? YoungMommy answered Wednesday June 29 2011, 10:48 pm: I think you should talk to him and tell him how you feel... let him know that you are hurting and maybe even show him your question above, he needs to know how you feel about this whole situation... If he wants to be your friend he has to put in some effort as well. Let him know that you dont hate him but you need him to be the friend he once was. If he doesnt shape up and be the friend you need then maybe you should move on. I know it sounds hard and you dont want to lose your friend but it is impossible to keep the friendship together on your own... Talk to him.. good luck [ YoungMommy's advice column | Ask YoungMommy A Question ]
ashiebuggie92 answered Tuesday June 28 2011, 4:21 pm: what you need to do is sit him down face to face and be straight forward with him this aint about liking him anymore this is about saving your friendship so don't hold back tell him how you really feel it cant hurt especially if he doesnt wanna be your friend anymore [ ashiebuggie92's advice column | Ask ashiebuggie92 A Question ]
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