I had DEEP feelings for a girl for 5+ years and I wasn’t sure how she felt back but we would hang out by ourselves a lot and talking to her was so easy. I woke up thinking about her every day. Every little thing she did amazed me. She was incredibly smart, she did so much but had time management skills I’ve never seen before, she was the sweetest and every interaction with her left me feeling so warm and happy. One day I let her know how I feel, but it turns out she just started dating some guy the day before. It left me feeling so empty for almost a year. I threw myself into my work to keep my mind off her. It was the most boring time of my life. Eventually I decided it would be unhealthy to see her in any way so I deleted pictures and unfollowed her on social media quietly. I didn’t want to make it seem like she wronged me. I did miss telling her happy birthday but that was an honest mistake. A year and a half after the “reveal” I reconnected with a girl I worked with a decent while ago. We’ve been dating for almost a year and a half now. She’s been so good to me, and I honestly love her to death. I thought having someone like that would make it easier to move on from the feelings I had so I added her back on social media and we would talk. Not often, in fact very sporadically. We all went bowling even, me my girlfriend, the girl and some of our friends. I’ve told my girlfriend how I felt about the girl and she’s been good about not acting too jealous about it. Recently though, she’s broken up with her boyfriend, and we just talked to each other for the first time in months and a sudden rush of feelings have come back. We may or may not be hanging out soon. I’m not sure what to do. I don’t plan on acting on my feelings because I really do love my girlfriend but there has been some strain we’re trying to work through. I literally live across the country from the other girl. I’m still not even sure this girl likes me but there’s a slight inkling. I’m confused emotionally. I don’t think telling either girl I’m feeling this way would help anything at all. This s****. My girlfriend doesn’t deserve this. Especially when I don’t even know how the other girl feels.
