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Best Friends or More?
(Im a 22 year old girl.)This one feels complicated. I met my now best guy friend, who is a 21 year old guy, at work at the beginning of the year and we bonded through his breakup with his long time girlfriend. We're a lot alike in a lot of ways and talk easily about pretty much everything, including our dating lives, family/personal/work problems and secret future dreams. Over the past like three months our friendship has gotten deeper and deeper, I guess you could say. Out of the blue one night he told me I was his best friend and he felt closer to me than to his best guy friend that he grew up with. Then he told me he loved me as a best friend. Then he started relying on my fashion and relationship advice to get back into dating. He kissed me on the forehead once to tell me goodnight and I was completely thrown back. Then he started flirting with me jokingly, when at the beginning of our friendship this was just not done even as a joke. Now he's calling me babe and flirting with me hot and heavy-mostly when we're around other people-while telling me he loves me (without saying as a friend like used to always specify) A LOT-around other people and not. All of our coworkers and friends say they see something there and after his comment tonight "what if we're like those friends that in 15 years realize they can't live without each other and get married?" I'm starting to wonder what to make of all this. Any insight?
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If you love him then do it/ go for it, I am 17 and I am getting married.
PS he is younger then me but not much.
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You're both blind (but you're worse) and he's in love with you.
If you like him that way, tell him, kiss him, go from there. If you don't, the friendship is over, because he's in love with you and keeping on being his friend is going to send him signals which give him hope to keep after you until one of you goes nuts.
How can you wonder what to make of this? It sounds exactly like two people in denial. Wake up and do something about it before one of you spontaneously combusts.
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I think this guy is falling for you. Now the question is: Is this a rebound love on his part or is he truly falling for you. The next question is do you have feelings for him other than a platonic co worker friend ship.
If the answer to the second question is you do not have loving intimate feelings for him and do not see those feelings developing. Then you need to talk to him and let him know how you feel about him.
I can't say if his feelings for you are rebound type feelings or if they are true; I'm in love with you I want to spend the rest of my life with you feelings. One thing for sure is you can ruin a perfectly good friendship by trying to make it a lover relationship and going to the next level and having sex.
Once a couple share a bed together it is almost impossible to go back to just being friends. Sex becomes a deal maker or deal breaker between friends who try to force a relationship other than friendship. So this is where you need to tread lightly. He I think is wanting to go to the next level, at least by what you have written for whatever reason he has. Rebound or otherwise.
If you do not wish to go to that level he has to realize it is because you value his friendship more than you need a lover right now. So tread lightly when you and he discuss this which is something you two need to do.
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