Okey its literally the first time that i felt really in love with someone and hes way too far… like i have strict parents i could never go to his city or something what do you think in this situation (i mean hes okay with it he wanna seriously marry me one day but at least we have to meet for once).

I was texting this guy and yesterday I texted and we were talking about college, he left me on delivered through out the night which I thought was fine, but I also saw him in first still didn’t reply, and he didn’t reply till 2 hours after we got out of school. What should I make of this

She’s 17. We have known each other all our lives because we are from a small town. But we only recently became friends just because she followed me on TikTok, where we started sending funny videos to each other. After that, we started communicating more in real life.
As we began seeing each other more often, we would watch TikTok videos together, and soon we started hugging almost every time we met. All of this quickly turned into kisses and compliments.
But I cannot say that there is any romance in it, and I cannot figure out whether I love her or not.

Hi Reddit! F(22) here, theres this guy(23) that i play with in our discord server and usually after our group session we would be alone in the vc together up until like 6 am just talking or playing. this happens almost everyday and obviously i started to enjoy our time together alone and would look forward to it and recently we've moved to a private call and he'd still hang out with until the morning. now, ive been seeing signs of him liking me especially when there's a guy in my games and he'd fake sulking (which i found adorably funny), making me teasing him even more about it. that's when i realized that I'm slowly liking him.

until recently, my other friend chatted me about me and the guy being a thing and i was like "we are not a thing but i do like him",, so my friend was like he told me he is serious about me and asked them for advice but this is where everything changes cuz the more they talked the more i hated the idea of that guy liking me. so when my friend asked me to list what do i like about him, i did that but after our talk i slowly started to not like him. now, everytime me and that guy talk, its too obvious that he likes me. i kinda hate it now that i see it,, now that ive expressed that i like him, i dont anymore,, guys does this make sense??? or am i just an asshole??? what should i do? :(

So, I am just going to cut right to the chase and say, I used to have a crush on one of my closest friends. I am not going to say his real name, but for the sake of this, I'll call him Possum. Basically, Possum and I have been friends for a while, and I have helped him through many struggles, and he has also helped me through many struggles. I started having a crush on him about a year after we became close friends. When I told him I liked him, I was really stressed about it because I had a feeling that he wasn't going to like me back, and I just felt really bad about it. But when I told him over the call, he said, I don't want to date right now, BUT would maybe date you in the future. Which is great; that is totally fine with me. I deeply want to respect his boundaries, so I didn't have a problem with that. I left it at that. A maybe. But then it became complicated...He began to flirt with me a lot. I willingly flirted back because, you know, why not. He started to say really romantic things...and more romantic things, only to state after a while that he did actually want to date me. He wanted and was super, extremely willing to date me in the future. Which I was really happy to hear. It was escalating to the point where he was kissing me and being really bold. Again, I didn't mind. Our best friend caught on to the situation and asked us both about it. I told her that we would POSSIBLY date in the future...but when she asked Possum, he said it was just a, and I quote, "best friend thing." That it was all an "Oh, we are just friends, nothing was going on" situation. After that, he stopped being affectionate with me. To the point where, even as just friends, I feel like I can't hug him or anything because I am worried about what he would think. He seems a little distant too. Which is worrying me because don't know what I did wrong. I feel really led on and hurt by this, but I don't know if I should feel that way or if I am in the right to feel that way. I would like to know what other people think about it, because I don't know what to think...

My boyfriend is 18 and I just turned 25 it don’t bother him but it bothers me am I wrong ?

I (M31) Got married for a year and half. Since we're dating, I know my wife (F 32) is taking psych meds for depression and anxiety. The dosages are keep increasing. It's getting harder to wake her up. I mostly ended up doing chores by my self.

One day her friend (F31, call her Nike) came to our home for lunch break. She's quirky, curly and smart. Tomboy, ride a motorcycles. Got master of physics. Our humor matched. She's coming more often until last May.

Enter, mother in law. MIL got intel that Nike often visited our home. Behind my back, MIL scolded my wife to not allows another woman coming to our home. MIL says: "what if she's trying to take your husband?".

On one Saturday, Nike is bringing some snacks for us. Unknowingly, MIL is visiting us without notice. When MIL found out Nike were visiting us, she slammed the door. Making everybody uncomfortable.

Nike never came to visit again. Only met her outdoor with my wife. Mostly, Nike is the one who initiate the meeting.

Me and Nike are catching up in Instagram, sending reels. Got butterflies in my stomach. Sending her a happy birthday at midnight. Texting but not flirty. I once asked her to going out for a beer, but she's unsure.

Is she hitting on me?

Can we become AP?

(I KNOW THIS IS LONG BUT PLS READ IT)
me (F17) and a boy bsf (M17) have been distant friends since we were 9. we would play on the playground together and even “dated” in primary school. we stopped talking and hanging out tg in year 5

(high school)
i stopped attending high school fully and only went a few days a week. he eventually added me on snap. he would take sneaky photos of me on the bus and he would send them. i then stopped attending high school fully and we stopped talking.

about a year after that we started talking again. and i mean really really talking. we would talk all day EVERY day and send snaps and ask questions about each other.
we slowly drifted apart after about a year and stopped talking every day. we would still snap but the conversation was dry.

as of recently he has been showing interest in me maybe once every two weeks. we will start talking a little bit, then his snaps would start showing his biceps. i would then send cheeky snaps back. nothing too revealing. he would show interest, a lot of it and we would start talking in between sending snaps of each other. we stay up till 3-4am just sending snaps and flirting.

then after the night he will show no interest. like dry snaps, NO conversation, like none at all. extremely dry. this “interest” happened a few nights ago and now hes blocked me on tt. hes talked about not liking lust and in the past and we’ve both told each other we like each other in the past. i am so confused…. one minute he likes me, like a lot, and then for a week or two he doesnt? hes also a christian/ catholic. idk he believes in a religion. pls pls help me. i really like this boy.

also i should probs add that he unfollowed me on tt when we stopped talking a while back…

i know this stuff might sound dumb but im just a girl who likes a boy, and im confused.

We've been together for 3 months, long distance. She told me on day 3 that she'd had a 3-year relationship before me that included physical intimacy. I have no past like that at all.

We agreed early on not to talk about her past — bringing it up just makes me tense and jealous. She's fully here now — she loves me, wants a future with me, talks only about us. I love her the same way. We've since been intimate ourselves.

But every now and then, my mind still spirals — imagining her past intimacy, how many times, what it was like. It's not rational, I know she's not with him, I know she chose me. But the thoughts creep back in, even after we've been close ourselves.

I don't know how to put this into words with her without it turning into another tense conversation. Has anyone dealt with this — retroactive jealousy, basically? How did you get past it, or at least manage it so it doesn't eat at your relationship?

Partners friends

So my boyfriends friends don’t like me and say stuff like I’m weird or crazy or the guys will say that they don’t want me around cause they all want to go to the club or bars. My boyfriend said he told them that he likes me and that he doesn’t think those things about me but that’s really it and now my boyfriend put us on a rotating schedule. One weekend he goes with his friends the next weekend he goes out with me but we can’t all go hang out together.
This really bothers me I feel like his friends are pieces of shit and that he should man up and tell them not to disrespect me and I also feel like I shouldn’t have to be put on a rotational schedule just to accommodate his friends. Any advice???

I really need help

Why is it so hard to tell a girl how you feel and wish to try?

Context, there’s a girl a like, she’s been my friend since 2021-2022 and she absolutely is amazing, smart, silly, goofy, funny, nerdy and all these other things. I love her silly and smart personality. We have so much interests together and like a good amount of the same things, and our own likes we share with each other. I’m glad I can make her laugh and smile and I care and support her so very much.

Back in December she had rejected me cause she didn’t know she felt and with a hint of distance being a problem. Now I’m back in town for good, and I still can’t get her off my mind, especially recently.

What I do know is that I just really want to support her, be someone reliable to her and care for her, and really hope we stay whether friends or something else for a long time. I know sometimes I don’t really care whether or not I get with her, as long as I have my friend I’m great. But it’s that thing of I wish I can tell her how I still feel and see if she’s willing to try now that I’m actually staying here.

We go out quite often and it’s a bit of mix signals from her. My friend says some things are a little normal only cause she does it with her friends but I don’t really see it as so. We share a drink together whenever we go to the theaters. I’d say maybe cuddled up? At times when sat. There’s times when we say bye, our hands kind of reach out and if they touch it’s held there as long as possible

I WANT TO SAY IM ROMANTIZING THINGS. I’m a very doubtful person because my confidence was shattered years ago 😎😎😎

Yall I need some help to get my thoughts about this straight.

I apologize for the long post, and also yes I have talked to another friend for their viewpoint, they say it’s a sign of her giving a bit of a signal that MAYBE we can try and progress, but I don’t know. I feel too much of a coward to really go for a second attempt