This Troper had something like this after a friend asked if she had a crush on another one of her close, female friends. turns out said troper ''does'' have a crush on that female friend. Figuring this out caused her to have a mini HeroicBSOD, not helped by the fact that she suspects her friend knows

This Troper had a really interesting one of these. I got to know one of my best friends at a concert. I felt ''something'' then, but I rationalized that it was just the excitement of seeing Paul [=McCartney=] live. I ultimately convinced myself that I didn't feel anything for her, and that she didn't like me either. Cue her admitting several months later that she did in fact like me. I went into a kind of calm panic, overthought it, and ended up turning her down because I'd been in denial so long that I didn't know how I felt anymore. I had a couple of other crushes after that, but none of them went anywhere, and I always came back to thinking about my friend and whether I had made the right decision. Finally, three months later, after one last dead-end crush, I realized that my friend would really have been the best girlfriend I could have asked for. The next time I saw her after that, I knew that, deep down, I had really liked her all along, and so I told her so and asked if she still liked me. We've been a couple since then.

This Troper figured out she had feelings for her friend for sure after staying up watching TaylorSwift on SNL. We watched it simultaneously, and this troper had a hard time keeping her feelings to herself. It got worse on Christmas break, where I had a mild panic attack after overhearing him say we were JustFriends to someone else. Our mutual friend had been teasing us both about how we were always hanging out. My friend told me what she had said and I panicked again. Eventually, I gathered up my courage and told him. It took a few months, but we're now together.

This Troper has this connected with her sleeping patterns most of all. She can tell that she has feelings for someone mostly by how well she's getting to sleep or waking up in the morning. She has a tendency to keep late hours, but yet she ends up sleeping at reasonable times (unless if she's talking to them) and waking up fairly early. It's always hilarious by the third time it happens because that's when the realization kicks in and the HeroicBSOD begins.

This troper had one with her current girlfriend after 5 years of friendship. At that time she was so unfamiliar with the idea of homosexuality that it TERRIFIED her and she kept it a secret for another year before confessing. Turns out she felt the same way and now I'm pretty comfortable looking into it and realizing I'm gay. :> Yay, progress!

that pretty much makes the rest of us have a little bit more hope :)

Speak for yourself. I recently relised that I have feelings for my best friend of mine after I noticed that I get a little... too excited when she hugs me for my feelings to be just friendship. I am a lesbian, she is straight, end of story. [=ROFLapadous=] just got lucky. Incidently, my friend is one of the only people I'm out to, so now I'm terrified that she'll figure it out DX

EDIT: Same troper as the above here, I think this might be a subversion, as I ran into a far more intense crush of mine when school started again, and my possible feelings for my friend paled in comparison. I'm not really sure how I feel about my friend at this point...

This Troper only realised how he felt about his best friend when a mutual friend joked about shipping the two of them together. Cue several months of trying to get to grips with his emotions and finally realising that he felt more than just friendship. He still hasn't told her, wanting to know how she feels about it first. The situation is further complicated by the fact that she lives on another continent, so contact is purely virtual. Here's hoping though.

I got mine with the help of a coin toss. But it wasn't about which side showed up; it was about which side I wanted to show up when choosing between two people represented by the sides.

This Troper realized this when some friends and myself were talking about our most memorable moments. I had been talking about when myself and my best guy friend were little and how kind he always was...When I re-told the story to my friends, it made me realize how long I've been in love with him.....

This troper had the odd situation of having a love epiphany about a friend of hers at the same time she had a huge crush on another. Neither worked out.

This troper had this happen when she realized that she was, in fact, in love with that one girl she would do anything for. To this day she refers to it as her "oh, ''shit''" moment.

This troper has gone through this twice; in both cases, the crushes had already passed, so it was more of "I had a crush on him, didn't I?" than anything.

This tropette had a semester where she would share a lunch with a few of her guy friends. It was always pleasant and it helped to let off some steam from the class that I was attending (a sewing; with some people that got on my nerves). Anyway, one of my guy friends, who I've known for a long time, and I hung out all the time at that lunch and we would walk and talk with one another on the way back to class. Needless to say, when we parted ways (at a hallway that splits to our respective classes), and I walked into my class, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

This troper had one of these at work, one day. I was on break with a coworker, texting the girl I like at the same time. After finishing a text and closing my phone, my coworker looks at me, and goes "You know, it's funny how you smile like that when you're texting." Cue near meltdown.

This Troper had a Love Epiphany while intoxicated and told her BFF that she loved him. The utter shock left her to tell everyone else she loved them too. too bad the story doesn't really have a happy ending

Three of varying degrees have happened:

Actual love. This was with my ex. We sat under stars, a few feet from a graveyard, in a field. We just sat joking aaround and talking. When asked later, we both mentioned that's when we fell in love, or at leadt realized we were in love. Unfortunately, things didn't work out in the long run, as the title of Ex shows.

After several people joking about shipping us, I stayied up all night and missed a final exam (still passed the course though) to talk to her, I realized how much I cared. Not love. Not even close. But moreof a Crush Epiphany. Who knows how it'll go...

I met her accidentally. We hung out all day and really hit it off, despite me originally trying to get to know her friend who was with us mainly (long story). Later that week we had a romantic dinner, (or as romantic as two poor college students can be. Whatwith kettle cooked noodles, elctric candles, and capri sun) with dancing and all. We had a few similar nights, sometimes with our favorite movies added. Of course she was in love with someone else, a long distance relationship, a fact I had known from the start. I knew I was very much attracted to her. Hell, since she lived too far away from college she even asked to come home with me for Easter dinner. Suffice to say, had she been single when we met, she certainly wouldn't have been for long, or at least I believe so. But lately I've been questioning how strong I feel about her. My friends are starting to point out a lot, even saying they think I love her. She makes me feel...calm, safe, I can't explain it. Like how I was when with the aforementioned ex. It was saying the exact same words of the previous sentence to my friends, that I realized whatever I may feel, it most certainly is more than a simple crush.

Curious if faking one of these is a good way to admit an already-existing crush. You can act like you just realized it so you don't look like you couldn't spit it out. Problem is, you either have to set it up with somebody (and that reflects badly on you if they FaceHeelTurn and tell them about it) or wait for random chance.

Happened to this Troper. I met a girl almost eight months ago... I clearly fell in love with her, but I never came to terms with it until recently. I never admitted to her, even though it was painfully obvious. Even she knew, but I never told her. So a few months ago, our friendship kind of fell apart... If I had admitted that I liked her beforehand, it would've... helped, somehow. The falling out part, well... I just happened to end up being clingy, followed her around, essentially I became a unfortunate, Dogged Nice Guy. She got sick of me. She hasn't spoken to me since. ...Until recently. My feelings for her have not changed since then. Of course, I deeply regret my dogged nice guy actions, the clinginess, creepiness, and the desperation. I've since changed that aspect about myself, but I still have feelings for her... and recently, I had realized that. And I had realized why I fell in love with her. Since I have not talked to her in months, I'm doing my damned best to try and make an effort to talk to her more, but to show her that I won't be as clingy or creepy as I was before. Though those feelings for her are still there. A total epiphany, I fully accepted and realized that I was definitely in love with her. Maybe it's love, maybe it's infatuation, maybe I'm just crazy. Either way, I still have those feelings for her. Which begs the question... What if she asks me if I like her? What do I say? What if she already knows? That I would have to figure out...

This has happened to this troper three times. Twice with the same guy, but both guys her best friends. She knew she has crushes on them after around a month, but as she sat in the grass or on the bus thinking about them, she realized her true feelings. It was like a slap in the face. Now, the one that received a LoveConfession twice...well, the first time was a few months after she met him and had broken up with her previous boyfriend. She knew he didn't love her back, but still confessed and was clearly turned down, but the friendship was fine. This troper got rid of the feelings. Flash forward a year later, she is napping with her friend on a couch, his scratchy face on her shoulder, and click. LoveEpiphany, again. She then went home and cried for quite some time because she knows that he has a blatantly obvious crush on two other girls and only considers her JustFriends. This troper had and at least monthly has HeroicBSOD over this fact, but since she believes LoveisaWeakness, she refuses to tell him again.

So me and my friend were talking at break, and I started talking about her older brother. She noted that I really liked to talk about him and it just hit me like a train that I had feelings for him. I just turned bright red. Then at the dance, he asked me to dance with him. So now every time we pass him my friends like "Nudge nudge" and I just blush like crazy. Could you actually want to go back to {{LoveEpiphany}} after all?