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This year I decided to move in with my Grandma and cousins. All my cousins are the same age, we grew up together and get along well. One of my cousins has a best friend who we see regularly and I grew quite fond of him. I had pushed my feelings to the side for a while but as our conversations with each other grew more frequent, my feelings grew. So one day, I confessed and he has also admitted to liking me too for a while.

We talked/flirted heavily with each other for like the first week after we confessed. We're both hopeless romantics, both fell hard and talked about a future together. However, he wanted to tell his best friend (my cousin) what was going on first before taking things further. Needless to say, things didn't go well. There's a 'rule' that my cousin's friends shouldn't go for close family and vice versa because in simple terms, it would complicate things. Also, I found out that this guy has a lot of issues in the romance dept and has led girls on in the past and his ex is kinda still in the picture (I've heard this from my cousins) there's a toxic pattern which he has never learned from apparently😭 He has told me that after talking to my cousin, he realised he wasn't ready to date despite his eagerness before. So we ended things on good terms and stopped talking. He's also not going to visit us as regularly.

Its been a week and my heart is SO heavy. I miss him so much. I grieve the future we could have had together cause I've literally never clicked with someone so fast.

I've talked to other close family about it and they think its none of my cousin's business, also dont understand why we can't figure things out together and believe my cousin is being manipulative. But my cousin would know his friend best right? There's also that bro code. I dont wanna ruin a close friendship.

But I don't know, should I text him? I miss talking to him, but it might further complicate an already fragile situation. Help?

So this guy we’ve now been friends for like a couple of months and even before we started talking to each other I would sometimes find him looking at me and stuff and every time we would cross paths at uni he would fix himself and stuff and from there I had my doubts as to whether or not he liked me and this was way before I myself started having feelings for him. Anyways, so now we’re a bit closer we laugh and talk a lot in person he teases me a lot and there’s A LOT of prolonged eye contact when we speak and like there’s a lot of the basic signs we see every that he may be interested (feet pointed towards me, eye contact etc) but like I’m still in the grey area but at the same time I feel like it’s the case but yeah. And I know yeah the best way to know is to ask him but I can’t do that but please someone help cause I’m hella confused