He Had A Crush On His Sister-In-Law When He Was Younger, And Since She Chose To Be With His Brother, He Informed Her That He Can No Longer Be Her Shoulder To Cry On
A 25-year-old guy grew up having the world’s largest crush on his friend named Emily. When he and Emily hit their teen years, he wasn’t quite sure how to tell her about his feelings, so he said nothing.
He was slightly awkward back then too, which didn’t help things at all either. He just hoped that one day Emily would wake up and decide that he was the one.
He kept his crush on Emily a secret from everyone, except for his older brother named Liam. Liam was not like him; he was confident and assertive, and he was the person he went to for advice when it came down to Emily.
And the day that he caught Liam hooking up with Emily, he was shocked. He couldn’t believe that his brother could stab him in the back like that, but it got worse.
“I know that she technically was never my girlfriend, but it still sucked, and I did feel betrayed,” he explained.
“Turns out they hooked up at a party once and liked the encounter so much that they kept meeting up to do it when no one was around.”
“I felt completely sick and basically just distanced myself from Emily after that, which could be really awkward because we had a lot of classes together and had the same shift at the part-time job we had. A job that Emily frequently depended on me to give her rides, too.”
His only desire at that point was to cut Emily right out of his life and stop being friends with her. When the summer of their senior year of high school came around, though, Emily, Liam, and his parents asked him to sit down and have a chat.
During that conversation, it came out that Emily was pregnant, and she and Liam were going through with keeping their baby.
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His mom and dad were far from thrilled, but he walked over to his bedroom and locked himself inside while he thought about how Emily would forever be in his life from then on.
“I purposefully transferred to an out-of-state College so I wouldn’t be home as much and lied about getting stuck in traffic when I missed Emily and Liam’s wedding, and I showed no interest in my niece “Daisy” (8f), although I still make the effort to be polite when I’m around them,” he said.
“Recently, Emily’s father has passed away, and she’s really going through it because despite him not being around, she always desired a relationship. When we were kids, I remember all those times I was a shoulder for Emily to cry on whenever she felt sad about her dad, and I guess she was longing for that type of comfort from me and kept reaching out. One day I relented and let her vent, but I maintained a silent and formal demeanor on the matter.”
Emily sobbed for an hour straight while he sat there without saying a word. He eventually asked Emily if she wanted water, and at that point, Emily demanded to know why he was being so uncaring. Emily went on to say she really did need him to be her friend at that moment, but he revealed to her that she needed to go to his brother if she was looking for a shoulder to cry on.
He maintained that he “stopped being her comfort person a long time ago,” but that only made Emily sob even harder. Emily got up and left, but then she got his brother, his mom, his dad, her own mom, and some of their friends to accuse him of being cold-hearted and full of spite.
“I can honestly say that I am now over Emily, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to be as close to her as I used to,” he concluded.
He’s left wondering if it is mean of him, though, to not want to be friends with Emily anymore. Do you think he should have been more caring towards Emily when she needed him to be her shoulder to cry on?
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