Is it normal to feel this way in this situation?

So this story is fairly complicated. For obvious reasons I'll make up names to call my best friend and so on. So I dated this girl, Jill, for about 2 years. We broke up mainly because we were just growing apart and getting tired of each other. There were no hard feelings and we became best friends. It's been a few years since we broke up and this past summer, our feelings for each other grew. However there was another guy who she likes, Bill, who she previously dated before.

Bill is better looking and more outgoing than me, but from what I've heard (from Jill and her friends) I was clearly a better boyfriend. Throughout the summer, Bill and Jill were kind of going out but not really. Once summer ended, I became busy with work and school so I didn't hang with her much.

One night on the phone, after a long talk about her being jealous over some girl I knew, it was revealed that she liked me more than just a friend. Me being an idiot never saw that all summer. I told her that I also loved her. Everything ended happily right? No. This conversation happened a few weeks after Bill and Jill started to get serious. So they broke up? Nope. I told her to do what she had to do with Bill whether it took one week or a few months. I felt that it wasn't fair to Bill to just do that.

It's been a couple of months since then and we're still best friends. My problem is that I can't stand them being together. It's not that I don't like Bill or I'm jealous, it's just that I'm afraid of losing her. She could easily stay with him for a long period at which point I wouldn't be able to take it. I could wait a few months but there's a point where enough is enough. She said she wanted to go out with me a couple months ago, what happened? I'm not trying to come off as mad or anything, just sad and worried. I know we love each other and I would do anything for her. I don't know sometimes I feel that she thinks that she can just run the course with Bill and once that's done, I'll be waiting for her. I feel kind of used, but is that just a flawed way of thinking or my instincts?

P.S. I feel awkward asking for peoples' opinions online but whatever.

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Comments ( 5 )
  • HurrrDurrr

    You brought it on yourself. Tell her to make a decision; stay best friends with you and just friends or leave Bill and be with you. You'll be much happier regardless of what she decides.

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  • Wow this is a really unfair situation, and the thing is it's really only unfair to you. To me it seems like she's using you, keeping you there to see if Bill breaks up with her instead. Rebound much? I'm a female and would never do that if I was Jill and said I loved you then I'd drop him right after confessing then this months long torture on you're part. All I can say is you should move on it might make her jealous, but so what she is taken and you might find someone you have a better connection with.

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  • korn3654

    I need a kindle for this story

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  • black_sheep123

    can i just say, when i saw you told her to carry on with bill i thort "what a tool" but then i read on and i realized you would do anything for her to be happy, if i can work that out without even knowing you then im sure she can but dose she feel the same way now, you need to ask her. if she says yes, ask her to end it with bill, its gone on long enough, if she says no then its a lost cause...

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  • aussiewolf

    just be friends with her. she sounds confused with what she wants. if you dont want to lose her as a friend, then just be friends and dont get jealous. your relationship didnt work while you were together so just remember that. if you two try to be together again and when it all blows up, you might not be friends again. i wouldnt take that risk. just love each other as friends and nothing more.

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