Search Results: losing a friendship

Basically, I met a guy online lol. We both started talking at the same time our relationships had just ended. We spoke everyday almost all day for like 4 months on Facebook. We had so much in common, I have never met anyone I've had that with. I literally wouldn't care if he were ugly lol, I just love his personality. I told him from the very start that I didn't want to lead him on, that I wasn't ready for anything more than friendship because I hadn't got over my ex. He was fine with that and we started a really lovely friendship. Inevitably, I start growing feelings for this genuinely lovely, great guy. I told him straight up that I liked him as more than a friend (around 2 months in) and he was really shocked. Although he was attracted to me intially he always saw us as friends because of what I said so it was hard for him to see us as more. When I told him he did tell me he got butterflies though lol, he even told his boss to hit him for being so blind! (Even though it was sort of obvious to everyone else since we used like at least a hundred kisses lmao). On the same night we had the same dream too! So creepy, it was of us at a party dancing specifically by a buffet lol. Anyway, so since then he was sending me so many mixed signals; he would seem so interested in me. He'd be really flirty sometimes and even suggested a movie night and cooking for me around his! But then he'd be unsure about his feelings. He said he "thinks" he likes me as more but he's scared of getting hurt and hurting me and losing the friendship.
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