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Is she really not in love with me?

Asked by Famous89 (7points) February 15th, 2020 from iPhone

Hi,

sorry for the lengthy text but it’s for context.
I hooked up with a girl who’s also my coworker. We weren’t really a couple but we texted, had phone calls and got intimate on multiple occasions. I may be wrong but I’m sure there was more between us than that. We had deep conversations and opened up to each other on an emotional level but neither of us confessed his love to the other. One day, all of a sudden she called the whole thing off. It caught me off guard. I asked her what I did wrong and her only explanation was that she didn’t think our thing was going anywhere. She needed to protect herself from getting hurt. I had no clue what she was talking about because in the months we were seeing each other we didn’t fight once. A couple of weeks later I told her that I did fall for her but was too afraid to confess it to her since I had to be sure she was the one. She then told me she met somebody else and that she wanna try it with him. Her wish was to stay friends though because she really liked me. I tried to tell her that it won’t work since she has someone new now she’s gonna be intimate with and who’s she gonna have these deep conversations with. However I went along with it because she meant so much to me. Oddly enough she really was still very open to me and talked to me about very personal stuff. Stuff you wouldn’t share with a regular friend. I was confused because here’s a girl who’s in a relationship but still shares private things with me. That’s what led me to shower her with compliments, text messages and gifts etc. in hope to win her back. Also being there for her whenever she needed help. Of course it didn’t work though. I confronted her which resulted in a big fight. I was still mad at her for not giving me closure but yet she acts as everything is perfectly fine. She elaborated that she made a decision for herself and I had to accept it. It’s been almost a year now and we are on good terms but there are instances where we still fight about the whole situation. Like I mentioned in the beginning we are coworkers and maybe that’s the reason she wanna make it work between us but if that was her sole reason she wouldn’t have breakfast and lunch with me every day. Most of the time she tells me that we can’t hang out with each other if I keep bringing up the subject about me loving her. Yet we still find back to each other, reconcile and maintain our break sessions. We still talk about private stuff and we also still have these moments when I playfully draw on her arm for example or go through her hair. However the after work texting stopped. She realized that she couldn’t text or have phone calls with me anymore since it would be unfair to her boyfriend.
A couple of weeks ago it escalated very big again when I told her that my wish for her was to one day waking up next to her boyfriend and realizing that he isn’t the right choice. “How could you say that, I didn’t think you were this evil, I could never ever be with you, that chapter is closed, you are so self-centered“, bla bla. I replied that yes I am self-centered when it comes to loving her. That the real life isn’t like a movie where the guy who didn’t get the girl wishes her all the best with her current guy when in truth he still loves her. For your information this always happens in our work place – in my or her office. Anyway, I later apologized with a lengthy text but she didn’t reply. We didn’t see each other the next day but I did give her a call (work place). She said that she was done with me because she didn’t think that we could come back from what has happened and she didn’t think I would stop telling her how much I loved her. The very next day we saw each other, sat beside each other since it was a coworkers birthday but didnt exchange any words. I then called her to ask if she wanted to talk after work to resolve the whole thing. She first agreed to it but called me again a couple of minutes later to tell me that her plans changed and that her bf is going to pick her up right after work. She came by my office before our shift ended and wished me a nice weekend and vacation.
I had two weeks off and during that period she called me on four days – from her service telephone. Three days in a row and one day during my second week off. She claimed it was because she needed my advice on her upcoming job interview for her promotion. That job interview was indeed about to happen during my absence but still. It is strange that she so casually picks up the phone to contact me after that huge fight we didn’t really resolve.

I can’t be crazy guys. She has deep feelings for me right?

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16 Answers

Zaku's avatar

“Is she really not in love with me?” – YES

“I can’t be crazy guys.” – You can be self-deluded, and you are.

“She has deep feelings for me right?” – WRONG.

rebbel's avatar

“A couple of weeks ago it escalated very big again when I told her that my wish for her was to one day waking up next to her boyfriend and realizing that he isn’t the right choice. “How could you say that, I didn’t think you were this evil, I could never ever be with you, that chapter is closed, you are so self-centered“, bla bla.”

I think this piece, for instance, sounds pretty respectless (wishing ill on her, and the bla bla); and she’s on to you.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

My best guess is that she doesn’t want to give the milk for free anymore; For you to buy the cow. It is not going anywhere is a sign for you to ask her to marry her or move on.

stanleybmanly's avatar

You are lovesick and hopelessly foolish. You know this intrinsically already, though you bounce the facts off us in the hope that we will
somehow reinforce your desperate hope that the 2 of you have a shot at togetherness. Were your competition to drop dead in front of you, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference. The reality that she had chosen someone else would eat at you exactly as it does now. Indeed, you would be better off were SHE to drop dead in front of you than to torture yourself by being around her. You must remedy your situation at work, at least until your lovesickness subsides.

josie's avatar

The key word here is coworker.
You’re violating a cardinal rule.

Never take up with a coworker.

She probably is simply trying to get out before she loses her job. Pay attention.

ucme's avatar

This is a Barry Manilow track, just has to be.

cookieman's avatar

Generally, you have to take people at their word. If she says she’s not that into you, she’s not.

Also, don’t dip your pen in the company ink.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

Or she could be just using you…
I’d put some distance between the two of you.
Find someone worthwhile to date because she is not it.

kritiper's avatar

If you have to ask, the answer is obviously “yes, she is really not in love with you.”
And never ever ever get involved with a co-worker!

Mimishu1995's avatar

A couple of weeks ago it escalated very big again when I told her that my wish for her was to one day waking up next to her boyfriend and realizing that he isn’t the right choice.

This very thing alone is enough for a red flag…

SEKA's avatar

She doesn’t love you. You just won’t go away. If you want to know for sure, find another girlfriend so you’re not available to her all the time. Don’t pretend that you have a girlfriend, actually get one. You are wasting your time with this girl so leave her with her new boyfriend and get you a new girlfriend. If she calls you, tell her you have plans with your girlfriend and aren’t available for her anymore

LadyMarissa's avatar

Sorry Sweetie…she does NOT love you!!! She’s NOT sending imxed signals, you’re just looking at everything the way YOU want to see it. Move on with your life. You’re wasting your love on this girl & possibly overlooking the girl who will love you back!!!

Inspired_2write's avatar

…“That’s what led me to shower her with compliments, text messages and gifts etc”

Be very careful..she MAY had done this with several others!

Ask for ALL of those gifts back and see what happens…she used you ( Gold digger)!

And now YOU have to see her everyday at work!

Hopefully by now you have learned a valuable lesson.

( That’s the reason why one doesn’t go out with coworkers)

P.S. Don’t stay “Friends” with her as this is her way of keeping her options to use you again.

Patty_Melt's avatar

You have become her best girl friend.

You work together, so she doesn’t want to be enemies, but she is so done with what you had.

You have to choose. Either move on or the next step is shopping together.
Who knows? Maybe when she asks you which wedding gown should she wear when she marries that other guy, you might finally get it.
A year? Come on.

Kardamom's avatar

She likes you, but she wasn’t in love with you.

Then she met (or already knew) this other fellow who she did fall in love with. At that point, she probably still liked you as a friend, and enjoyed your company, but she was in love with the other guy, and didn’t want to hurt your feelings by acting like the two of you were in a romantic relationship.

It’s often hard, if not impossible, to maintain a “just friends” type of relationship with someone, when one of the people (in this case, you) has stronger feelings, especially feelings of love, when the other person just views the relationship in casual terms, or as just friends.

She probably enjoyed talking to you, as a friend, and probably thought you understood that she was in a real relationship with the other guy. It’s too bad that you and she didn’t have a more specific conversation about boundaries. Even though she still liked you as a friend, back then, it really wasn’t appropriate for her to talk to you about such personal things, after she started dating the other guy, because it sent you mixed signals.

She should have saved the “personal stuff” for her best girlfriends. You should have told her, when she started dating the other guy, that it would be too painful and awkward, to continue to act as her “best friend” because you still had romantic feelings for her. Both of you should have agreed that it would be best if you had a more limited neutral friendship, so that you could bow out gracefully.

I don’t think she meant to hurt you, but there were multiple misunderstandings, and attempts to remain kind, and to keep the “platonic friendship” although that ship had already sailed.

How do I know this? Been there, done this, had this done to me, multiple times, until I figured it out.

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