Firstly, love is a very strong word, but I get that in youth it can seem like love even when we don't really know the person. Really it's just obsessively crushing on someone. Ofc I don't know your situation and can't tell which either. You'll know years later on what it was.
Now, how do I feel..
If I am obsessively crushing and she has someone.. well if I am forced through work or school to be around them then I feel so conflicted and at war within myself to try to get close and stay away.
If she gives the slightest hint that she could feel something then unfortunately, I might act shamefully and try anyway. Though only if I don't know the guy or seem to know anyone that knows him and if she makes it clear I back off. It's not right, I know. But it luckely never succseeds either.
Though I had a taken crush a year ago, she was the one pushing for it but she seemed the pinacle of promiscous and even if I felt strongly I just knew I wouldn't be able to keep her. I declined her offers, it felt right.
In all other cases I just remind myself that if I truly care for them then I will want the best for them. Even if that ain't me. I take joy in knowing they are alright and on a good path. Then I keep going forward.
But I don't know if I could do that so easily when younger, I can now because I have so many examples in my head of times when I had to move on and times when I didn't. The reference-base gives so much perspective with age.
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The same way I did 22 years ago when it happened to me!! Cheated!! Ripped-off (all those years I stayed loyal to her when I had other options)!! Gaslighted!! (8 years before she cried like a baby when she assumed she was losing me to my previous ex-GF who wrote me and said she wanted me back!!)
I remind myself that imagination is better than facts. That's what Einstein said. So I just look at his old photos from the days when he was single and dream of being his underage girlfriend. I try not to feel jealous of the ones he has blessed with the greatest pleasure ever known to womankind.
He is either gay or I took too long to make a move. It is what it is.
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Well. When someone you are into likes someone else. It sucks and it hurts. But you need to find someone else
No really likes me, so If I feel like I am falling for someone, I just stay away from that person as it is better this way.
It hurts me when a girl is in love with someone else, and she leaves me cold and dry with no explanation, all I ask for is what did I do wrong?
There's lots of other fish out there in the big blue sea, move on and wish them luck.
Really sucks. I had one girlfriend deny cheating on me but she was. Even married the guy 10 months after we split.
I move onto another of the four billion other women on the planet.
It's heartbreaking and soul crushing.
Invite the other guy for a threesome?
I stop loving them.
Lonely and dejected
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