She Realized That She’s In Love With Her Best Friend Just Before His Wedding, And She Regrets Never Telling Him How She Feels
Have you or someone you know ever fallen in love with a best friend?
It’s something that happens to a lot of people, and thankfully, in many scenarios, the friend feels the same way. But when they don’t, it’s a pretty brutal reality check.
One young woman has realized she is in love with her best friend just before his wedding.
She’s known her 24-year-old friend since 2019. Her mom invited him to dinner with another friend that night, and she was smitten with him from the beginning.
“We talked for hours until they left,” she recalled.
“We connected over many things, one being that we both had a disability. Over time, [he] helped me to love myself and taught me that having a disability doesn’t make me any less of a human. So I fell harder and harder for him but never said a word about my feelings for him.”
She never confessed her feelings to her friend as she was scared he’d reject her, which would ruin their relationship entirely. In the meantime, they continued to see each other almost every day. That is until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and he had to move back home to be closer to his family.
During quarantine, they’d always talk on the phone, and she was happy to have stayed so close to him. But then, one day, her friend started asking her to help him with online dating profiles and wanted dating advice.
This really hurt her, as she thought perhaps he was starting to feel the same way about her as she felt about him. For instance, they once matched on a dating app, but he then revealed that he had swiped on her to see if she would swipe on him.
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When she started seeing someone else, her friend would find any excuse he could to bash the guy and tell her she could do better. He was giving her so many mixed signals to the point where she felt really overwhelmed.
But as time passed, she still never confessed her feelings for him, and he started seeing someone consistently.
Her friend and his girlfriend were on and off for a while, and the last time they had broken up, he said some things that made her believe it was for good. But then he surprisingly got back together with this girl and proposed to her.
Since her friend’s wedding day, she’s been feeling crushed and filled with regret for never telling him how she felt.
“I don’t even know if I ever had a chance in the first place, but I still wish I had,” she said.
“I’m not going to say anything because I only want him to be happy, and if this is what makes him happy, then so be it. I guess I just need some tips on how to get over this.”
How should she cope with her friend getting married after everything she’s been through?
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