Is it possible to remain friends when feelings get involved?

Philippines
March 18, 2010 4:16am CST
Hi, I'm a little sad today. I've got this guy friend whom I met twice. We got closer through chat and text because we communicated almost everyday. But for the past month our communication were dwindling. Just recently he stopped communicating. I asked him why. He said he was busy with his work. Then we met last monday (our second meeting), he said he was sorry again for not chatting with me. I was kind of sad because before he was not like that. Even if he's busy with his work he's still got time to communicate with me. Every time I tried to chat with him, he just keep ignoring. Then I found out from his friend that he got feelings for me. He decided not to communicate anymore because he knows that I don't reciprocate his feelings. I just want to continue our friendship, but I think he needs some space. So I stopped communicating with him. But I miss him a lot. So I think friendship is no longer possible when feelings got involved.
4 responses
@ifa225 (14460)
• Indonesia
18 Mar 10
same here, i ever get crushed with my friend, but i don't want it happen, so i just leave him to handle all the feelings that i hide. keeping a distance is a better way for me to forget him. Now, i can take him as a friends when he call me.
• Philippines
18 Mar 10
Time do heals.
@ifa225 (14460)
• Indonesia
19 Mar 10
yeah...just let the time goes by, you don't know how the power is.
• India
20 Mar 10
Hiii my friend.. it happening with everyone's life, my friend ll say " with whom we getting closer they ll leave us soon".. but that time i dont know she going to leave me, now am alone without her, am trying to speak with her but i cant.. for the past 4 years am feeling sad without her.. but don't worry, keep this same affection.. surely he l come again in ur life.. he may busy know.. just wait for few more days, or else explain how much he s important to u..
• Philippines
22 Mar 10
Thanks Shyam. Friends are important to me especially those closer to my heart. That's why it really make me sad and it hurts when there's a gap in friendship. Maybe he'll come around. I'll just give him the time and space he needed as of now. When everything's okay I'm sure he'll understand. And I hope and pray everything will be okay with you (too) and your friend. God bless and take care. ;)
• India
23 Mar 10
totally agrees with you, once feelings are involved friendship can't exist just as friendship, it will either break down or just go up to the level of relationship, its not stable when feelings are involved, I had a very good friend, was so close with her, and then she suddenly started ignoring me, it was almost like we WERE like family, so I asked her why is she ignoring me, after a day or two she finally told me, that she have started liking me and wants to leave, i kept on trying to keep her with me, but then again, I was lucky :P I had a fever, I told her, I said I wouldn't rest :P she said alright go and rest and she wouldn't leave, my fever went away and we were friends again, but this couldn't go on very well, soon after that even I started liking her and then one day again she wanted to hide it, but i was so close to her that I knew whats wrong, I asked her again and again whats wrong, and then she told me she wants to do something but something is stopping her, well, that was all she said, after 3 days of really bad mood in our conversations I finally told her on june 26th 2009 at night 8:30 that I have started to love her. I don't like to tell the rest of the story , T_T itjust proves friendship + Feeling = Not possible
• Philippines
18 Mar 10
I think that lies on the a person's decision. For your friend, he decided he couldn't continue being your friend because he had feelings for you - I guess maybe he couldn't BEAR to pretend that he just really wants to be your friend and nothing else. But, on the other hand, maybe in time, that same person might later get over his feelings and be ready to resume your friendship. So it depends if the person is mature enough to get over his/her feelings and continue the friendship. It does get affected along the way, and it might take time before everything goes back to normal. I think you two should talk about it and get things out in the open. Rather than keeping quiet and not saying anything at all.
• Philippines
18 Mar 10
Thanks. Maybe in the future we're going to talk about it. As of now, we both needed the space. Hoping we'll resume our friendship in the near future.