[El Bastardo]

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I met a girl through a friend back in January and it was from the start 100% a friendship based relationship. I didn't have many close friends at the time and she didn't either so it was easy for both of us to share our problems with each other. Be it parent issues, work, school, it was just easy to talk to her and I know she felt the same way.

We didn't just talk to each other often we started going to dinner, watching movies, and going to whitecaps/canucks games. If not every week every second week I would see her. I wasn't the one always asking to hang out either. I was not paying the bills we both paid our ways and sometimes we would treat the other like on a birthday or for some other reason.

Last month it just hit me when we went out for drinks ones night and she wore a very nice dress and looked, for the first time in my eyes, absolutely beautiful and I knew I had a problem.

I told her that I started to have feelings for her and that I couldn't help it. She told me she didn't have the same feelings and was worried that our friendship would be over. She brushed it off and thought we could get around it.

A couple weeks of not talking, which I thought would help me get back to just being her friend, we went out again and the feeling was still there so I was honest with her and I told her that I'd have to avoid her until my feelings go away and we can be what we used to be.

The question for RS members is; Has this ever happened to you but you eventually grew into a relationship with the girl/guy. The feelings I have for her aren't going to go away in a few weeks. What I'm wondering is if she will have a change of heart from not seeing me for a long period of time.

Or should I just try my hardest to forget her and movie on IE plenty of fish in the sea