This is ''terrible'' in RealLife! A DoggedNiceGuy, if you believe him, has apparently fallen madly in LoveAtFirstSight with me, and even though he's nice, good-looking, highly intelligent, and even fun to be around, there are NoSparks, and I can't for the life of me explain to myself (or him!) why! Jo March, I now understand ''exactly'' how you felt in "Heartache."

This troper had this happen with her first real boyfriend, and now it's the other way around.

This troper, terribly shy and a lesbian, was frustrated with her nonexistent dating pool, and in a confused and desperate move took the first other gay girl she met on a date... NoSparks. Don't worry! I found someone much better.

This troper had it with her last boyfriend. Upon the advice of many friends (whom I have now learned to trust only with a grain of salt), I started dating him. He was a genuinely sweet guy who completely understood my need to be alone sometimes, and head over heels for me to boot. We had similar tastes in music, television and movies, but I just didn't feel anything for him. I broke it off when we left school for the summer.

Exactly the same with this troper. He's hugely into animals, really nice, a perfect gentlemen, in chorus, same as me. I just didn't feel anything.

No Sparks is...well, it's inconveniently horrible. And it always seems to happen with the people who would be great boyfriends or girlfriends--the people who you click with on a mental level, those who share a lot of your interests, are good at proving a point, have a sense of humor, and just "get" you--who you would otherwise have no problem dating if the thought of sleeping with them didn't make you go "eh" or "...eww."

None of me or my friends have any sparks. Because we're humans, and not Cybertronians.

This troper went on what can only be described as The Most Awkward Date Ever in college, after which we became fantastic friends. Of course, the next year, her boyfriend joined my fraternity so I wouldn't date her (I didn't, two of my brothers did). Since then, we've become best friends, seen long-term relationships end, lived together, and admitted mutual objective physical attraction, but... Less chemistry than a philosophy program.

This editor of the TVTropes wiki avoided situations like this by being (or acting) so uninterested and ignorant (even rude at times) that everyone would see the impossibility of any sort of relationship, and that nobody would dare to approach him. This method was constructed after having dealt with an annoying... uh, saw-me-as-her-crush sort of thing... whatever you might call such a person.