how long could you hide your feelings for a person?

According to me you can hide your feelings for as long as you can, I made a best friend last October , and I love her like anything , but I have never confessed because I know that our relationship will not work , as it will never be approved by our parents , and it not the fear of loosing her , but the fear that in the process I might hurt her feelings so I hid everything from her , eventhough I know that she too loves me.

I think, this would depend on the person I have feelings for, but if it someone that I know and I hang out with, I think that the best is just go ahead and tell him about it... this life it is too short to risk be without the person you love because you think you can be rejected... I try to live everyday as it was the last one, because you never know if your are going to be here tomorrow!

For as long as I know my feeling will not be given a warm reception-why should I pour out my deep emotions to some one who would trumple over them like she is stepping over dirt?

I've hidden my feelings for many years but not because I thought he could reject me, only because, at that time I thought I were too much young to have a boyfriend or similar. I preferred to tell nothing to him and I didn't tell anything also to my friends and parents. So it was a feeling exclusively mine, a tresure hidden only in my heart.

I can hide my feelings for a very very very long time...I've been hurt a lot, not in love, but in life, and I learned not to trust people a lot. I have a thick wall around me, only a few people ever "torn it down". I suck at love and only had one GF... But when I love someone as a person I just can't hide it...I am very physical with my girl friends, If I like them, I like to hug them, hold them, pet them on he head when they say something stupid :) I just need to be close to someone and it's impossible to hide that, at least in my case. Nice question, made me think a lot.

yeah im doing that now. it sucks in one way, but it's also great bc i won't have to lose his friendship. bad side: it's eating me up inside&&i want him more.

I can't hide it forever. But for me, if she's really worth it, then I'll prepare to be rejected and confess.

Perpaps it is ! But what you have done should never make you feel any regrets!