Have you ever loved someone and never admitted it? Why didn't you tell them?

[jack1924]

[DaveJord]

Loved? No. Liked yes. Circumstances as to why I never told them, timing is everything and if time and opportunity is not really there... I mean it takes a lot of effort. After going through it many times, just not worth it.

[PeachyPie93]

Once, one of my good guy friends, we were friends since I was 6 and he was 7 and got along super good. We both get on with each others parents too. Reason I never told him is because I didn't want it to ruin the friendship and I assumed he wouldn't like me anyways. We stopped hanging out after high school but we ended up working with each other for a month or so when I was 20 and he was shocked when he found out I had a boyfriend and was moving out of the country lol.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

I’ve been infatuated with someone and haven’t admitted it.

As for love goes, I have only loved once and he knew I loved him madly.

[Bricealan]

I have been very attracted to young girls when I was 30-something, but either to distracted or too focused on other things, or maybe just too dense to say something.

One girl, told me after a long time knowing her..."Well, I have always thought you were very nice"... she had been going with some guy I thought was a looser and beneath her, but I was too obtuse to say anything.

He who hesitates is lost... a true statement... for me at least.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Oh, the mysteries of love! Yes, I've danced in those shadows too where love goes unspoken. It's like holding onto a book whose plot twists you can't share because, sometimes, timing is a party crasher, or fear grips you tighter than a hug, whispering tales of rejection and heartache. And let's be real, revealing those three little words can feel like stepping into a lion's den wearing a steak suit. So, why didn't I tell them? Fear of rocking the boat, of losing a precious friendship, or perhaps, deep inside, knowing that our chapters might be best enjoyed separately. But oh, isn't love the greatest adventure—even when it's silently savored?

[Cheapskate]

Can you please fuck off?

[jennifer_bloom]

I crushed on people without saying it but love is a different story.

[findacure4wokeness]

This girl i liked for 3 years started hang around me a lot more than normal. She then asked me if i liked her. I just told her that I shouldn't answer that because she had a boyfriend. She ghosted me after that. It might be wrong but I painfully missed her for decades after that.

[Becky316]

My younger brother, it just never came up. I know he knew but I never actually said it. He died in a car crash a few years ago. I regret never telling him.

[jack1924]

So sorry

[Dongie]

A whole mess of them. I fell in love in the second grade. Still remember her face and that was in 1969 at age 7. Then Shelly Oliver at still 7 summer between 2nd & 3rd grade 1970. Probably 35-40 that I never approached further than "hi" or small talk provided I could keep my tongue untied.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Why? Because there was no reason to. She wouldn't have felt the same. So it wouldn't created something beautiful. It would have destroyed something we already had at worst, and would have made it awkward at best. And I wasn't going to be selfish and do that to her.

[DrPepper12]

Because I was a stupid kid in middle school and she wanted me to and we spent the whole summer together coyly and playfully as friends cuz I was a coward. I just want that time back to go punch myself in the throat.

[Dongie]

Man, I know that feeling. I was a chickshit with girls I really liked until 23-25 years old. Just screwing around girls I had no problem chatting them up.

[At3mis24]

Yes, I only tell my closer friends, because he was an actor.

[NathanDavis]

no... I only love, and call it love... when it is about two, and mutual, of course...

so, my girlfriends

[Account]

Loved? No.
Fancied? Yes.

The circumstances weren't alright, it could not work, even though he liked me back.

[Sevenpointfive]

have you ever heard the saying. he's not the the one right now but he's the one you marry. or something like that

[Fireguy17]

no I'm pretty sure I always did let them know.
Maybe he just needed some liquid courage to get the words out?

[Anonymous]

Learned the hard way to never tell a guy I have feelings for him. It has to come from him first.. always.. no matter I’m dying inside to say it myself lol

[exitseven]

Yes, I loved somebody in high school and never told her.. I was too afraid.

[Juxtapose]

If I love somebody they know it.

But "in love" love is an illusion. The real love comes from years of devotion and is a verb.

[Anonymous]

Yea I have, a girl I worked with, just never bothered telling her, I don’t work for that company anymore and neither does she. I know her email and IG but I would never message her out of the blue like that.

[Cheapskate]

Yeah. Because what is the point? All I will get out of it is rejection. If not initially, then eventually.

[Babygirliiw]

Yeah. Couldn’t be with him so why tell them?

[Agent_Elflord]

Don't know if it was love or infatuation, for me it was fear of rejection and ruining my friendship with that person if they didn't feel the same way because it would be awkward to continue hanging out with them.

[Pinay_ako]

Coz it’s not worth it

[bobby_bush_eater]

Infatuated yes, actually loved probably not. I was younger and very naive of girls