Question: If you have feelings for a friend, like long term feelings, that you know aren't reciprocated though you've never told them, but you do know that they love and appreciate you very much as a friend, and the only way it shows that you like them like that is in positive ways like being there for them, making them feel good and special, going the extra distance for them, is it at all wrong?
I have a friend like that, she has a boyfriend, and if I was a guy, maybe it would come across differently, but we can share beds and we go out just us and we are basically best friends, we have been since we were little, and things like... inviting her out to dinner make me happy in a way they wouldn't with other friends. Like, sometimes I feel like I want to court her and pay for her meal and walk her home and hold her hand and you know, be romantically platonic?
I don't want to bang her or date her, I just want... I don't know, what I just listed. I'm so weird.
The part I feel guilty about is that I get pleasure from things like inviting her out because it's like a date, but that's not what it is and if it was, it would be wrong, so... guilt factor.
What do you guys think, I don't know. It's the harmless positive type of love, and in no way is it he the 'Nice Guy' love where I'm being nice to get in her pants, it's the opposite, I just genuinely like her and making her feel good makes me feel good. It's the most selfless kind of love I have.
Like, loving you-know-who was the opposite, I did it because I knew it would make me happy, and while there isn't anything wrong with that, it's not the same as making someone happy for their own sake.
Edit: So I took her her out and we shared wedges and I paid for dinner and we walked along the biketrack that goes along the beach up to the lighthouse where we stood against the railing and looked out at the sea in the moon light and talked for ages. I was satisfied because I've had that restaurant/ walk in mind for a date/ her for agesss. It wasn't a date of course, she's my best friend but it can be quite similar sometimes if you just take out the physical.
Actually we spent an hour or two talking about sex which was pretty awesome because she gas strict boundries on that topic normally. But we had a very funny and memorable chat with at least a few new injokes which means our friendship is renewed for a bit which is positive. Now I just need to do the same with my bffl. Not the tingly date feelings but the reconnecting. We see each other a lot and talked on the phone but I've been quite MIA lately so need to rectify that, though it shouldn't be a problem. Now I am just having fun with my auto correct which not only predicts the end of my words but the next one too. It is kind of amazing.
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