This troper had told her friend that she had a crush on him. Note, this troper has had a crush before on this friend but it disappeared when she found another boy. She has NEVER been able to act normally around him, until a few years ago. Well, she told and he isn't interested in having a relationship. Though we've agreed to try and move forward as if nothing has happened, things have gotten very awkward now... Sad part is, this troper doesn't want to lose him as a friend... *sigh*

This troper likes his best friend, who's not interested in him at all. We know each other really well cause we have this PlatonicLifePartners kind of deal. Since I know she's not interested in me, I decided to go for IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and just give up.

Most people who've met us seem to ship us too. Joy.

This Troper has been in love with her best friend for YEARS, unable to move on. She's still holding out hope that someday her friend will realize her feelings for said troper. This is unlikely, but she can't let go...* sniff*

Maybe you should confess?

Seconded. Don't be like this UCF and wait TWICE for his best friend to find a boyfriend first, before getting up the nerve to confess to her.

Tripled. They may be more receptive than you'd think; this troper was trying to get up his courage to confess to a friend of his when she made the first move instead, making him very happy. Better to try than to go on worrying.

Fourthed, only this troper is saying it because some people - like yours truly - aren't good at picking up on hints. And if you're not hinting anything... what, do you think they know telepathy or something?

Fifthed. I know I'm absolutely terrible with picking up hints (if there ever have been). For me, if the girl is interested in me she has to come right out and tell me as otherwise i'm not going to get it.

Sixed. And good luck.

Seventhed. It's actually harder to pick up hints from a friend.

Eighthed. Do it. NOW.

Ninthed. This troper learned that guys are also scared to confess- being the manly gender and all *rolls eyes* It can be very hard to pick up hints. This troper and her best friend did not know that we liked each other until one of us spoke up. Now she is very happy with her boyfriend <333 Just give it a shot and tell him- you'll never know what will happen...

Tenthed. DO. IT. NAOUGHW! Also, I hope that the above troper's eye rolling was expressing contempt toward the manliness DoubleStandard instead of telling just guys to man up... >_>

SEVEN YEARS. I have been dropping hints for seven years. I hang out with her, I chat it up, I use innuendo, I dance with her sometimes, I bought her VALENTINE'S DAY GIFTS, and every single one of her friends know perfectly damn well. If she weren't so oblivious, I'd say she was doing this on purpose. Either way, it's depressing.

This sounds exactly like my ex-best friend and me. He liked me, I acted oblivious because I didn't want to hurt his feelings since I couldn't return them. It did not end well. There's a whole paragraph on the Gaygnst page about it.

This troper is in love with his friend since early elementary, but right now, the girl had a crush on another girl who moved away...and still does.

This troper had fallen for a childhood friend for years. It was up the 4th grade when she confessed even though she knew it was hopeless. After months of usual routine went by with no reply, she lied and said she had a crush on his neighbor. There was no reaction and as 5th grade came around she went on vacation and he moved out of state. Suddenly 2 years later when she moved, he came on a surprise visit even though he had no contact with her for 2 years. Within one night, her feelings reawaken, but by morning he left without a word or contact again. Feelings lingered on and off until the end of her 9th grade year.

This troper only ended up making things go worse and worse after running into a childhood friend (from primary school) he had a thing for and hadn't got over it (he was a very shy and young dork at the time so didn't have much social interactions). Well, he was trying to sort out being friends with her, but thought he'd see if she wanted to go out sometime. However, let's just say he came on a bit strong and in hindsight everything that happened from her perspective just made me look clingy and a loser. He's now 20 and she works in a chip shop that he goes into sometimes. He pretends to ignore that her friends working there are still under the impression he is interested in her romantically and that he must be going in there especially to see her not even waiting until he have completely left before starting to make a joke. This is probably one of the worst ways unluckychildhoodfriend has gone in real life. She did admit that at the time we were in primary school she had some romantic feelings for him but there's a good chance it was her just being polite.

This troper remembers being madly in love with a girl he first met in the 1st grade. It was during a field trip to the school district museum and for whatever reason everyone was in line arranged by birthday; she was exactly two weeks older than me. Both birthdays fell in September and we were the only ones in that month, which according to the first-grader's social hierarchy made us pretty damn special. Even at that age where one can't even say the word "penis" out loud without giggling and the genders were divided between those weird rhythm-clapping games and pizza monsters toys, she seemed like a pretty special person. I was one of those boys was in the would-have-been-awesome-in-ten-years class of being both the best friend of a girl and an honorary member of the class female clique. Looking back, it was like being the liason crossing enemy lines. We were in the same school, except for 6th grade, all the way through high school. We both pretty much feel back into type by the end of elementary school, when sports sounded like the cool thing to be interested in and she fell back into whatever girls do on the other side of the curtain. Through junior high we talked to each other one in awhile; ran into each other in the hall, gave advice on which teacher does what, that sort of thing. And in high school just kind of drifted apart. And not once, ''not once'', did I ever ask her out.

This Troper, now in college, had a friend in middle school, with whom I had a hilarious WillTheyOrWontThey SlapSlapKiss relationship, which sadly, remained unresolved until we graduated and moved on to high school. About two years later, the friend says "If you had asked me out yesterday, I still would have gone out with you." the very day of the start of her new relationship. This troper still kicks himself for letting that one go.

This trope fits ThisTroper relationship with a guy. We had mutual crushes on each other as children, but going to different schools and barely having any contact from middle school to high school. We were on-again, off-again a couple times for a while, but now we haven't made contact in months; the relationship has effectively ended. In retrospect, we weren't actually that close in the first place; he was more emotionally invested in the relationship because he's insecure, shy, and afraid of letting go of an old flame that had gotten rained on years ago.

This trope is This Troper's life story. I've known this guy since we were both five. Ten years later, he's one of my best friends. I've liked him for about two years now, but he does not feel the same. I have no idea if he even knows I like him. However, he is going out with one of our mutual friends and I can't bring myself to hate either of them. It would be so much easier if the boy was gay.

This troper has been in love with the same guy for FIVE YEARS. The saddest part? He lives like 150 miles away. And neither one of us has a car. And gas prices suck. But here's the kicker: This troper has had more than a few chances to make a move, including spending an entire week together in the same house with next to no parental supervision. So basically, she just all around sucks. And she's contemplating going gay now because she hasn't found a more suitable guy in five years. (She's found a few females she can deal with, one of which plays the UnluckyChildhoodFriend in our relationship.)

This troper is teetering on this, since she doesn't actually know exactly how she feels about him. She has on and off moments where she thinks she likes him as more than a friend, but other moments when she thinks not and considers what she does feel as mere concern. However, if she does like him more than a friend, she was told (in a half-joking manner) by him in a casual conversation that because they've been friends for so long (since they were at least 7 or 8, and they're turning 19 this year), they probably could never make a romantic relationship work. At that point, this troper decided to give up on any decisions to persue, and only hopes he doesn't hook up with a certain someone she doesn't like...

Admittedly, this troper's just looking for sympathy here, but his story goes as follows: This troper has only ever fallen in love once to this day, and it's with his best friend whom he met in (if he remembers correctly) middle school. The friendship turned into a crush during high school, but by the time this troper realized he had a crush on his friend, his friend was already in a relationship. Then they broke up, leaving this troper a wide open opportunity. This troper confessed his feelings, but this troper is also an idiot. A big, dumb, complete frickin' idiot. So he didn't actually ask his friend out after he confessed, because he thought that he could wait until the end of the semester when they would have more free time to spend together. He didn't even think for a second that his friend could meet another guy and start dating again. But it happened, resulting in TriangRelations of type 4 (or possibly type 7, but 4 is much more likely). And to make things worse, this troper they might be found out they are discussing Uganda. Meanwhile, this troper has never wanted to come between his friend and anybody said friend might love, since IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. Sigh...

We'd been best friends since third grade, and even though we were geographically separated in middle school we kept the friendship up. Puberty hit, along with sexual identity issues, and I discovered I was bi. Some time in high school we spent a week together with little to no parental supervision. Cue confession. Turns out she's not interested.

This troper is in a bit of an interesting situation with her best friend. We're in a sort of HeterosexualLifePartners relationship - a touchy, huggy, random-goodnight-kiss-on-the-forehead (from the friend, not this troper) relationship. Problem: this troper has a crush on said best friend. Second problem: this troper is dense. Very, very dense, and cannot differentiate others' platonic from romantic behavior. This troper will also never say anything, because this troper only has a few close friends (read: two). In short, this troper is a bit of a jam abso-f** king-lutely screwed.

This troper met her best friend in middle school, during which he had a (pretty obvious, but never discussed) crush on her. Three years later, after going to different high schools and his moving cross-country, cue role-reversal. Now he's back and she'd love to confess, but is convinced she lost her chance with him years ago.

This is making me cry... ManlyTears

This troper is the UnluckyChildhoodFriend caught in a LoveTriangle where EveryoneCanSeeIt on both sides though we are the FanPreferredCouple of our youth group (Yes, they are the kind of people to ship the regulars) despite the fact we are JustFriends (though we've had a few SheIsNotMyGirlfriend moments) and if we ever did get a RelationshipUpgrade it would probably involve some SlapSlapKiss and, my luck, end in BetterAsFriends. And he knows all of this. Is there a TVtropes ''Is'' My Life trope?

Sometimes, it really sucks to be on the other end of this. I lost one of my best friends (since I was about three) when she confessed and I rejected her. We tried to keep the friendship thing going but it was just awkward. I still feel bad.

I'm in the same boat, pal.

This troper's only crush/possible first love was with my childhood friend. We've had a few times of CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, such as the time this troper sent him a carnation for Valentines Day, or the time he chose her over a male friend in a trust exercise. Unfortunately, we were in a LoveTriangle position although we all remained very good friends. This troper and the other girl knew how the other felt, yet we were okay with it. Later, the other girl moved and so this troper thinks she had a good shot of telling him how she felt (not really caring whether or not he felt the same way), only for him to turn into a a complete jerk and for him to have a long distance relationship with the girl. This troper thinks things worked out better this way.

This troper has an interesting story, that transcends a couple of tropes I guess. So, of course this male troper has a female best friend who is pretty hot and has been one of his best friends for half his life, and it started out with him having a crush on her. I could never have told her about that, though she might have figured out at some point, real good question that I don't know the answer to. At some point though, I came to view her as only a friend, to the point that now I genuinely view her platonically. Weird huh?

This troper. Mostly thanks to a very limited palette of expressible emotions.

This tropette is leaning on this so, so very much. She has a crush on her best female friend, whom she has known since she was 5. Only now, 8 years later, I understand I love her. Only problem? She's straight. Thus, I can never act upon or confess my feeling for her, because she'd instantly turn me down. Even worse, rumors are now going around that I am a bisexual, which, while is true, I can't really accept because I'm in a small Catholic school where everyone knows everyone. So now, the hug that I gave her when I saw her that used to be the highlight of my day is a "no-no."

A six year crush didn't work out so well for this Troper. Turn out... that entire time... he was talking about another girl. We're 'just friends'... but thankfully this is actually working for us.

This troper had a crush on her one childhood friend, but ended up moving and nothing came from it. However, she did meet a new friend in her new town that ended up being her boyfriend, so it's all good.

This troper has had a crush of over 4 years on the sister of his lifelong childhood friend. The problem is that both of us are lacking in self-esteem and my recent attempts at establishing contact have been met with timidness. I don't want to push her but this point I just want a conclusion, whether it is victorious or unlucky.

I recently felt this trope in full force. I realised that I actually like a female friend (who I've known since I was seven) more than I thought I did. She's single (and, to the best of my knowledge, has always been), so should be easy to ask her out, right? Wrong. Whenever I've tried to talk to her, I've never been able to think of a way of bringing it up without seeming blunt and, on top of that, I know that, if I try to bring it up, I'll not be able to spit it out. Since we are basically Opposite Sex Clones, however, I suspect the relationship would be...difficult, considering the type of person I am.

This troper has a pretty big crush on a male friend of hers, whom, because the universe hates her, she happened to meet because her best friend wanted to set the two of us up. He somehow found out (he credits his amazingness) and told me that he saw me as a sister.

This troper has been absolutely flat-lined by a crush on her best friend for almost two years now. It recently has come out that my feelings are reciprocated, but he's too afraid to do anything about it because "he cares about me too much as a friend" and "doesn't want to ruin anything." I wish he hadn't told me my feelings for him weren't just one-sided, because it'd be a lot easier to give up on him that way. As it is, I'm trying as hard as I can to but I can't.

This troper had a crush on a cute boy back in 4th grade when she was a NewTransferStudent - it helped that this boy had also transferred to the same school a few months before I did, so we had something in common. We became good friends, but I could never tell him how much I loved him. He left middle school sometime during the winter break when we were in sixth grade, and I spent the next 5-6 years in agony, wondering what had happened to him. (Those years he was gone from my life were also the same years I got badly picked on in school, almost to the point I had contemplated suicide, the desire to see him again and finding out what happened to him was what ultimately kept me going in my life.) I wasn't reunited with this boy until my senior year of high school, when we got put in the same study hall first day of fall semester, and by then he had gone from cute to He Is All Grown Up. On the second day of school I asked him if he had any plans for the weekend, and he said he was planning on spending time with his girlfriend. As happy as I was to see him again, I couldn't bear to be The Other Girl in his relationship, and I had no idea if his girlfriend was a clingy jealous {{Yandere}} or not. I ended up spending the majority of my senior year avoiding him primarily because I felt I had no right to destroy his happiness or decide who he could or should hang out with. In hindsight, his girlfriend was probably relatively normal and sane since she let me get a picture of her boyfriend and me on the last day of school, and additional hindisght that comes with being an adult has made me realize a serious romantic relationship with my crush would never work out in more ways than one.

This troper is effectively falling for one of her best friends. And unfortunately for this troper she's straight. For the record, them knowing you like them and them being completely okay with it and you're still friends.... still isn't the happiest situation. {{All Love is Unrequited}}

This troper has a huge crush on his friend that he has known since the first grade. Unfortunately he's probably straight or asexual. It also is unfortunate because we go to different schools now. However this troper's crush on his friend is vastly overshadowed by his recent unrequited love for two other guys.

This troper has been in love with one of her best friends since the fourth grade. Six years later, I finally confessed. He admitted that he likes me back, but we're both carless fifteen-year-olds living thirty minutes apart, and he's unwilling to risk a (not very) LongDistanceRelationship. It's hard to get over someone when you know there's still a chance....

This troper met a girl in middle school and instantly adored her. She was the first girl (or boy, for that matter) she ever felt this way about, and two years later they're best friends. Recently this troper came out as a lesbian to her parents, and admitted her feelings to this girl. Well...she learned rejection hurts a lot. However, she is still best friends with this girl and writes odes and sonnets about her. This troper doesn't think she'll ever "get over her", but this girl deserves someone better than this troper.

This MtF troper has been friends with a girl since 5th grade. This troper's been in love with her off and on for a few years now, not that this troper can ever tell her. We have religious differences, and she's not exactly... tolerant of people who are trans or aren't straight, so this troper can't ever come out to her, which hurts because we're best friends. In fact, this troper brought up dating once (jokingly) and she said that she could never like me because this troper is her "brother and it would be too weird." She's four years older and has a boyfriend she intends to marry. I've given them my best wishes because I know he's better for her than this troper. As much as this troper cares about her, she's been one of the biggest contributors to this troper's current ongoing depression.

This troper has known her best friend since she can remember. She's not quite sure when she started having feelings for her, but the troper knows for sure, that it's never going to happen.

This troper happened to be letter B in a LoveTriangle with A as Childhood Friend (and almost literally GirlNextDoor). Despite how much she attempted to gain this troper's affections, his heart was set on C who returned his feelings yet was also close friends with A and knew how much A adored this troper. Consequently, when this troper confessed to C, she rejected him and asked him to reconsider A's affections. This troper was heartbroken and vehemently rejected A. Three years of friendship rebuilding later, this troper has begun to grow feelings for A and they have become close friends again, yet A will no longer think of this troper as more than a close friend.

This troper. Hung up on a girl for about 2 and a half years. Asked her out. Got rejected. Aah teenage years...still, got the rest of my life ahead of me so I figure there's no point getting hung up about her any longer.

This troper had one real friend since kindergarten, a GenkiGirl who he played Osananajimi to, somehow. The two of them had such fun together. They even shared a first kiss... Unfortunately, the Genki Girl friend had to move away sometime around 4th grade. She recently found this troper on facebook, and told him about how her life has been empty since she moved, which is unfortunate seeing as ''she'' is the one who's gotten married since then. '''This troper''' is the Unlucky Childhood Friend, yet he's still the one with all the (empty) luck.

This troper, if only for now. Thanks to being inept at being in relationships for 14 years, when he finally got old enough to have girls like him, he led one on. In fact, he led TWO on. Unfortunately for him, idiot as he was, the second one who liked him had a best friend. This best friend is this troper's best friend's sister, and come a few months later, he realized he was head over heels for her. The issue? Well, beyond the awkwardness of the brother situation and the issue of her best friend, her condition as a {{Shrinking Violet}} and his tendency of being completely overbearing and rushing things resulted in an awkward situation for a month where it was nothing but {{UST}} that was broken by this troper's acquaintance. She broke up with him rather justifiably in 9 days. This troper has, rather effectively and systematically, ruined our friendship, not only with her but largely with her brother, both of whom this troper has known since he was 5. Alternately, this entire story could probably go under What an Idiot. Go back to UnluckyChildhoodFriend. I'll try not to cry...(insert waterworks here)