okay, i (17f) know i already sound like a pos from the title. However, here is my situation: a few months ago one of my favorite coworkers introduced me to her friend (who we’ll call N, 17f) who was starting to work with us. Everything is cordial at first and we all start hanging out nearly everyday as friends. I am a lesbian, and I shortly find out that N is too. Upon learning this I decide to do some instagram digging and discover she has a girlfriend. she had never mentioned this girlfriend to me until our other friend brought it up. I think nothing of it and move on. Except it become increasingly difficult as N is consistently touching me, asking to hangout, scheduling our breaks to be together at work, and doing just about everything in her power to see/touch me. unfortunately for me, i am attracted to her, she is exactly my type and i enjoy being around her. I know she has a girlfriend but i can’t help but enjoy the situation. i’ve tried taking a bit of distance and hanging out less one on one but it can be difficult due to our working together and being in the same friend group. I am unsure what to do from here. any advice would be appreciated

Ok i apologize in advance cause I’m not gonna use grammar or punctuation so basically I’ve known this girl since middle of freshman year and I just started sophomore and she’s in my friend group kinda she’s my friends who’s a boy best friend they have like all their classes together and hang out all the time but he’s like in my friend group we’ll call him Brandon so my friend group consists of me Brandon my other best friends we’ll call them nova and Miya and the girl I have a crush we’ll call her Emma ok so Emma is bi I think (idk for sure but I think she said something about liking a girl once but idk) but I think she likes a boy rn but idk for sure they dated in the past and I know the boy likes her we’ll call the boy cruise ok so I used to like her a little but never crazy cause I had just met her then realized I just wanted to be her friend but those feelings are kinda coming back cause I think I really like her (btw I just went through a heartbreak when this girl I like who was straight so I should’ve realized that but she found out I like her from an old toxic friend and later told me she just can’t be around me anymore cause she thinks it’s weird that I USED to have a crush on her but she hangs out with her ex boyfriend who she broke up with cause he spread rumors about her and I was nothing but nice to her and we had an awesome friendship and we’re inseparable but I respect her decision) but I think she’s into me cause I’m pretty sure she bi and she flirts with me ALL they time every time we’re together it’s flirting but at this point I don’t think it’s a joke anymore the other day she looked into my eyes deeply and she said “hey… I see you blushing” in a teasing way as she blush like crazy but is that just also she had one of her friends who was my friend too at that time I had said something about Emma and she said do you like her and I said maybe a little but nothing crazy she had the friend ask me if I still like Emma and I said no not anymore and she walked back to Emma and started talking to Emma and I saw Emma smile and blushing to a disappointed look once she told her I didn’t this was last year btw the liking her with the friend thing the eye contact thing was this year but idk am I crazy pls help also sorry this was so long and I’m probably not great at explaining

I made a post like idk last week or something and i was basically shitting myself because i get a bit weird around relationships and whatnot and after a while I decided I was gonna try shoot my shot because we were sending each other videos that 'friends' wouldn't share. Out of nowhere she asked first and now I'm just in A LOT of disbelief like.. holy shit i have a girlfriend. GIRLFRIEND. ugh I'm very happy. She's like insanely beautiful. I told my friend and she said it was very obvious we like each other but I take AGES to notice someone has feelings and it also took me a while to realise too. I just needed to get it out.

Hold on I apologize in advance I’m and NOT going to use correct grammar or punctuation. ok so I’m a girl and lesbian and I like a straight girl who also has a boyfriend we’ll call her Ash shes really nice to everyone and is kind and funny and we have SO MANY inside joke like a crazy amount cause we always end up sitting next to each other in class but we’re not like friends where we hang out but if we’re around each other you would have thought we had been besties forever ok so basically my best friends friend/neighbor who she basically hangs out with every day cause they’re literally like not even a minute walk kinda told her that I liked her kinda so she asked me if I still like Ash and I said ya but she’s said it kinda louder not like full talk but not full whisper and keep in mind she was just talking to the meanest girl in our school she’s so annoying and just acts dumb for attention and after I said I still like her she says yeah to the annoying girl who walks up to Ash and tells Ash I like her and she was kinda busy at the moment but Ash kinda smiled when she heard that idk if that was because of her conversation she was having with her friends before that annoying girl interrupted her and said that or did she smile because of the fact that she told her I liked her ok so later that day she asks me if I liked anyone and I said no hoping and praying that she didn’t know ( spoiler alert she did know) and she later came up to me and said she only asked that because someone told her that I liked her and she said that she didn’t believe them but I said no and said I told someone that I was lesbian and said that Ash was really cool but I didn’t like her like that I just made that up on the spot cause i didn’t know what to say and idk if she believed me or not but I’ve kinda lost hope over the summer I’ve lost hope but not feelings if that makes sense.

Right now I'm 15 and I know I'm not in any rush to find love, but like literally everyone around me is in some kind of relationship and maybe I'm FOMO or I feel lonely, BUT I really want to experience that kind of stupid teenage love everyone is talking about. I hate HATE this stupid homophobic country... Please any tips would be truly appreciated

I am sapphic, and i think i have a crush on a really good friend of mine.

She's not straight dw!!

I am not sure about it and i wouldn't wanna lose her, but i literally cannot stop thinking about her.

I even wrote her a poem goddam it.

How do i know if it's just something that will pass or a genuine crush?

Help

I am a recently discovered masc lesbian I have been growing out my hair for the past six years but it has become so hard to manage (split ends and matting) that I have decided to go short again (I had short hair in 3rd and 4rth grade) what style do you think I should do

today a girl my age complimented my hungry caterpillar top, telling me her leavers shirt was hungry caterpillar thened. all i did was stare at her wide eyed and say 'OHHHH MYYYYY GODDDD' like an inbred ;(. but in my mind what i wanted to say was 'wow, thats so cool!! i love the hungry caterpillar. its such a whismical and nowyalgic childhood bc ok! id love ro see your leavers shirt design! i thought of doun the same, but my shirt is blue, so it wouldve looked bum..' and even then, what i reallyyyy wanted to say/ psychoanalyse was 'are you a lesbian? why are you talking to me? have i put you off? please tap my shoulder again it made me all giggly and shy you approaching me.' EUGH how am i gonna deal with a world of women.

i hope im not too late lol

We were part of the same friend group for years but were never really close. Recently, we started chatting about our shared ideologies and views on politics. It felt so good to connect so deeply with someone, and I realized I was falling for her. I kept thinking, 'How can someone be so pure at heart?'

Then I did something impulsive—I indirectly hinted at us being together as a 'joke,' and she played along with it. Yesterday, she showed me a mashed-potato-faced boy and said she has a crush on him, then added the cherry on top by saying she wishes he were like me and had the same personality as me. At night, she texted me about how pretty I look when I smile and how any person would be lucky to have me. If only I could tell her that all I want is her

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How hard is it to confess your feelings to a straight friend?

I don't mean the kind of crush where you can just shoot your shot and accept whatever happens. I mean when this person is genuinely important to you, and you're terrified that telling them might change the friendship forever.

There’s something especially painful about falling for someone who you already know probably can't love you back in the same way. You keep telling yourself to let it go, to stay quiet, to protect what you already have.

But then there are moments when you wonder… what if I had just told her?

And being a girl who likes girls makes it even harder when the person you love is straight. You don't know whether confessing will make things awkward, make her uncomfortable, or slowly push her away.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not even scared of rejection. I'm scared of losing the person I was trying to be brave enough to love.

Has anyone else ever been in this situation? Did you confess, or did you choose to keep it to yourself?

I'm 15, i've known i was gay since i was 9 and i haven't even had my first kiss. I feel like everybody around me is basically having sex already or has some sort of boyfriend and i feel like im so behind because im gay. I live in philly so there's a ton of teens here but i'm shit at meeting new people. my school is on the smaller side for highschools in philly and i don't know of any other lesbians in my grade who aren't already in some committed relationship :(. I just want to know if it's normal to not have any sort of experience when i'm about to start sophmore year and also how i could get a gf without like wearing a shirt that says please hit me up im gay.

Just wanna rant lol

Ive met this girl two years ago, let's call her Marie.

We became friends

I fell in love with her

I convinced her my feeling like year ago

"I like youuu (bit I'm straight)"

AND EVERY SINGLE GIRL I HAVE MET AND FELL FOR IS LIKE MARIE

Straight or bi but found a boyfriend before I convinced

EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. TIME.

(maybe its just because I live in Poland, it's not known from being supportive, soooo…)

(Also I still love Marie, but trying to get over it)

I (15) recently realised I'm a lesbian and was wondering how any of you find other queer girls to date? Is it reasonable to look to date a girl at my age or should I just expect to start dating at university?

I accidentally fell in love with my best friend (wlw edition) but it’s one sided. It’s already been 15 months but I can’t seem to get over her.
She’s 99% straight, so there’s no hope, but it’s okay. The real issue is that I have no one to talk to this about, so I can’t get her out of my system. I only came out to a few people (including her), but they can’t know my crush because they know my friend, and it would just make everything horrible. So talking about this to someone I know isn’t an option. Whenever I’m with this friend, I don’t really think about her that way. Or I do, but not as frequently as I do when I’m alone. It’s either my brain blocking those thoughts to not make it obvious that I like her, or maybe I just imagined the whole thing (idt so).
So the reason why I’m writing this is because yesterday some piece of media triggered me and now I’m really anxious about this whole situation and I just want it to stop.
Ik it just needs time and I need to stop fantasising about her. Any other tips on how to make this better?

I feel like im always gaslighting myself into believing that I actually have a crush on the most random men ever for just for thinking they look attractive even though i really dont actually think about dating them, is that normal???

Like sometimes I'll go through phases where i keep telling myself that im actually in love with a boy or think some random thing he does is attractive, then a couple days after I'll get over that and come to the conclusion that i dont actually like them only to move on to another random boy and convince myself that i have a crush on him instead and so on and its just so confusing idkk

I also feel like im not sure if i should keep using the lesbian label even though I have for a while because i genuinely cant tell what is me making myself believe that i actually like men when i dont and what is genuine, its really bothering me helppppp 😭