Talk about Bad Timing

by Amber
(U.K.)

I've liked this guy since I met him at the beginning of college. Now, six months on, although it seems a lot longer, we've become best friends. About 3 months into our friendship I told him that I liked him as more than a friend, and at the time I foolishly told another friend of ours, who he liked at the time, but she didn't like him, and she kept making inappropriate comments, saying we'd make a perfect couple. This caused him to tell me to my face that he didn't like me like that. I understood because I valued his friendship.

I've had two partners since then and sadly broken up with them, but each time I've told him about them, I've felt he had a pang of jealousy and was always keener to be around me.

Now he has a girlfriend and has done for about a month now, possibly less, but I had a conversation on MSN with him a few nights ago in which he asked me if I still liked him as more than a friend, to which I replied yes, and he later admitted that he did like me as more than a friend and always had, he was just afraid that we wouldn't be friends if things went pearshaped. I was taken aback by this and asked him what was going to happen because he's still with his girlfriend and he said "Yeah, there is that."

We're going to the cinema together tomorrow night, I don't think his girlfriend knows, but I don't know what's going to happen, if anything. I'd love it if something did happen, but like I said before, I value his friendship more. He's been having problems with his girlfriend recently though. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.






Really get to know the person you are dating before taking the next big step