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So recently I womaned up and asked my crush out. He said No.

I'd kind of prepared for the possibility due to mixed signals, so was going to leave, but he seemed to want to talk, we talked for over an hour.

He said that he didn't want things to get weird or awkward between us, I said that they won't, but I will need to distance myself from him a bit, as I need some space to get over him. I made it clear I'm not going to be rude or ignore him, and will still say hello etc. and we are still friends.

He got upset and said he didn't want things to change. (We talk a lot and tend to end up hanging out together for most of the night when we're out with friends.) I said we can't carry on like that, as I want to get over him and move on.

He said he thought that 'this would bring us closer together than ever'. I thought that was a really weird thing to say, I can't imagine how he thought that would be the case. Any thoughts on this? (It really confused me.)

I feel bad that he is upset, but I really wasn't expecting it. We've only known each other a couple of months, and it's not like we're best friends or anything.

Please comment below if you have any insight, I feel like maybe I'm missing something! None of the options I've listed seem likely to me, so I keep thinking there must be something else. Thanks.

If it helps, he seems to be a gentleman and nice guy, and doesn't do casual sex.

I work as a cashier in a large store. Now us cashiers in my experience, we're around each other all day almost every day, there's a lot of us, and little time to leave our section of the store. Other departments tend to have only one or two people in a department in any given day, and they are spaced out to get different areas of their department done. What I'm getting at, is that the cashiers, we become fairly close, but also get kinda cliquey at times. And by that, I mean, the cashiers RARELY speak to anyone else from around the store. We also have a tendency to be gossipy... even the cashier guys. Or well, the ones who stick around. It's mostly women, there are only four boys.
Anyway, when someone upsets someone whose already apart of the cashier "group" that person starts telling people, and then those people tell others, and soon enough, they're kinda iced out. Even more so when that person comes off as rude. Shy we can handle, condescending, no.
That said, when word gets out that people are getting fired, it spreads like wild fire. Only it seems to be the cashiers who know, not anyone else in the store. Now there is a rumor that three cashiers are getting fired. We don't know who two of them are, but we're all 99% sure that it's one girl who most everyone dislikes. Which is kinda sad, she's very sweet and all. But she's got all these "mental illnesses", now the real problem with that, is that it's caused her to call out multiple times, and the other day she just left work without telling anyone because she "got overwhelmed". Cashiers give each other breaks. Which means she messed up EVERYONE'S schedule by doing that. Mind you we were already irked with her because she got pissy with another cashier for refusing to date her friend who was being overly attached and pushy after they'd been set up on one single blind date. And then the latest guy to get fired we were all kinda relieved to go because he wasn't doing his work anyway. And had a bad attitude.