One-sided crush: To confess or not?
Have you ever experienced strong feelings of attraction for someone to the point it overwhelms you? In cases like this, I suppose the common way out is just to tell the person how you feel about them and then just bear the consequences whatever the response may be. But it never really dawned on me how much the burden transfers from me to the other person until a recent conversation with a friend. Upon confession, the feelings one might feel are anxiousness and worry while waiting for a response, disappointment, hurt and sadness if it’s not reciprocated, over the moon if the feelings are met with open arms. Let’s focus on the part where it’s not reciprocated. If we’re able to set ourselves up for disappointment and already mentally prepared for the worst case scenario, I don’t think the blow would be that bad. In fact, I think finally releasing all that pent up emotions and imaginary what if’s scenarios would present some form of relief. But how about the person on the receiving end? Th...