I’m a 16 year old girl and I’m in love with my friend’s dad. About two years ago I realized that I had developed a crush on him, so I just told myself that it would go away and tried to move on, but as time passed my feelings only grew stronger. It’s not like he explicitly ever made moves on me (probably one of the reasons for that is that he knows me since the day I was born as he’s been friends with my parents for over 20 years now; he’s divorced by the way) and he’s not some s*** DILF or whatever, either; he’s an average looking middle aged man. The reason I fell in love with him is that he likes the exact same things I do and we could talk about them for hours, we have the same view of the world and society, he actually cares about my problems and always reassures me and tells me how beautiful I am (I have self-esteem issues and anxiety and boys my age don’t help with that at all). Especially lately everytime I go to my friend’s house he always volounteers to give me a ride back home and we stay in the car way more than necessary and just chat, it’s like an unspoken thing between us. Sometimes he even gives me little gifts for no apparent reason. I’m really conflicted at the moment because of course I know that being with him would be against the law and I really love my friend (his daughter) and don’t want to hurt her, but I never felt that way with anyone before, like when we’re close I feel geniunely happier and everytime he smiles at me I think of how much I would love to see that smile for the rest of my life… I guess I’ll just ignore my feelings like I’ve been doing in the last two years, but the last few months it’s been really hard and I don’t know what to do to make it stop.