I love my bestfriend

I am 18, a guy, and I have been best friends with this girl since we were 13. We "went out" a little bit when we were 14 but it was a stupid middle school thing so we broke up and we stayed best friends and we have been ever since. We both have very busy schedules so we can't see eachother to often anymore, but we still text a whole bunch and I love her. I don't know if I have feelings for her because I can't ruin our friendship because it is one of the things I value most in my life because we have very little in common but we still love eachother. We make it obvious that we don't like each other because other people bother us about it and they think for sure we are going to date but when me and her talk then we are like no way. But I don't know if that is really how I feel. She has been talking about other guys so I try to go out and find somebody else but I don't think they are good enough because I feel like the girl I am looking for is her. What do I do? Do I tell her how I feel or should I keep the friendship?

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  • stonecutters93

    Have to tell her dude, it's better to tell her and not go through life wondering "what if". Sure it could damage the friendship, but true friendship lasts through anything. And if she really has those feelings it could be the best time of your life.

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  • DangerousPotatoGuy

    If I were your other best friend I'd say stop being a wuss, but instead I'd say stop being a quad, jk go for it man

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  • ariannel

    If you're in love with her (not just platonic love) then you must tell her. She deserves to know. Be cool if she rejects you and dont act desperate or clingy. Make sure she knows maintaining your friendship is most important. Its likely she may come around eventually. Its hard to deny someone who adores and respects you.

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  • this just proves the point that heterosexual males and females cant be friends one or both have to be gay for this to work as a friendship.

    If they are both straight there will always, always be sexual tension. Its impossible for there not to be.

    You would have to tell her eventually, even if you dont want to, its going to eat you up inside if you dont.

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  • 1brianna1

    wanna hear a sob story?

    I started liking this guy from the first day of high school, and immediately started crushing on him. We eventually became best friends and did everything together. Drive-in dinners, movie nights, you name it. We were so close that we could read each others' minds. We talked on the phone almost every night and were in almost all of the same classes together. We were inseparable.
    By the time my senior year came along, I loved him more than anyone I had ever known. I hid my feelings from him because it seemed psychotic to tell him when we were already so close. Then the depression started. I would spend the day with him, drop him off at his house, drive away, park the car and cry. This reoccured almost every time I spent time with him. I stopped eating right, and couldn't sleep for days on end. He had no idea- we even went to prom together as dates.
    I have no idea how it got so bad, but one night, I was so upset about the whole situation that I went out with him to a play and pretty much ignored him the whole time. When I got home, I suddenly knew that it wasn't worth it. I picked up the phone and called him. I told him how I felt. And in that moment, I suddenly realized that I had known the whole time that he didn't feel the same way. I felt so totally liberated that it was as if somebody had turned on the colour in my life again. I didn't even care when he told me he couldn't reciprocate my feelings. Then he told me he was gay and I was like..ooooohhhhh...
    Long story short, we are even closer that ever now, and it only took me four months after the fiasco to find a boyfriend. In face, we're going shopping together next Wednesday. The moral of the story is, the pain that the secret within you heart causes you is rarely worth it. Being rejected is just a fact of life, and will only hurt until you learn to move on. Tell the girl.

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  • Man just tell her if you don't you might regret it

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  • model101

    I have the exact same problem. Me and my bestfriend have talked about going out but said that if it ended badly we didnt want a ruined friendship. But now we realize that we both have feelings for eachother. You need to tell her before someone else gets to her first and you are really dissapointed.

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  • Dazzie

    Aww. Yes, tell her!

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  • ygrowup

    Yes, tell her now, waste no more time before you regret it

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