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[opabinia]

What do you do when you're 99% sure your infatuation is one-sided? You may choose more than one answer.

1. Give up, drink and sulk.
2. Continue making occasional awkward, affectionate gestures in an endearing, unobtrusive fashion, hoping they'll at least wish they liked you back.
3. Booty-call some previous fuck buddies.
4. Start another video game/mini-series.
5. Throw in the towel: Confess. Describe how their mere presence is like Kryptonite for your social skills and coordination. List the stupid little things they do that make you swoon like a lovesick retard. Brace yourself for a healthy reality check. (Better have booze and video games/mini-series at home.)
6. Detach: Enjoy the pleasant feelings a crush can bring, but pretend you're thinking of an imaginary person.
7. Buy yourself things until you're happy or broke.

Comments

[popetom.livejournal.com]

Is this a multiple choice list you have to chose from, or are you going to work through these in order?

-PT

[talesinsdaughtr.livejournal.com]

In the past, it's been 1, 2, and 7.

[cutieperson]

1, 2, 5, 7.

[dalaeth.livejournal.com]

2, 3, 6 and 8. Find someone new to crush on.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

9. Lift heavy things until you're distracted?

[nepenthedreams]

If I want to kill my crush (the feelings, not the crush object that is), I just try to notice things I don't like about them. Everyone has some.

[anechoic.livejournal.com]

1, without exception.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Every time someone else replies, I read this one again, and chuckle every time.

(Incidentally, I've been implementing (1) thus far.)

[jhimm.livejournal.com]

i tend to go with #5
and have frequently been shocked at the results.

at one point,
when i was about 23
i found out that a girl i'd crushed on since i was 12,
that i'd always assumed was one-sided,
was desparately in love with me,
and always had been.

"you don't know until you ask".

[pyrric.livejournal.com]

If you think there's a possibility that you could have an actual relationship with this person, 5. Because even if the reality check arrives (with its attendant awkwardness for both of you--it sucks just as much to tell someone you don't feel the same way about them as it does to hear it), chances are once the awkward has worn off, she'll be flattered to know that she has such an effect on you. But don't overstate it, because you'll come across looking a little creepy, which I know you're not.

If you think there's no way in hell that you'd have an actual relationship with this person, 6. I don't think it's really fair to involve another person in something that will never work if you don't have to.

[hawver.livejournal.com]

#1, with less sulking and more drinking. Then again, I've always been a happy drunk.

[shnells.livejournal.com]

dude. tell her you think she's cute and you like her personality and you really enjoy her as a friend and want to keep her as a friend but that you wouldn't be opposed to something happening romantically if she was so inclined too. what does she think?

that's perfectly reasonable, mature and doesn't come across as creepy at all. if she says no she's not into that, then smile and say ok, just wanted to see if it's a possibly, thank her for her candidness and then be prepared for her backing off from you. keep acting normal and you will retain her friendship.

it's the tactic L took with me at the very beginning when i'd told him that i wasn't interested in anything more than friendship with him.

[spitcurl.livejournal.com]

In order, until something gives and they perhaps like you back: 2, then 5, then 1, then 6.

And a good bit of #10: Analyze to near-obsession just why it is that I am crushing constantly on those who don't return the feelings, and what that means, and why, and how to go about changing that in the future. Then #11, detatch, but think fondly of them, not as imaginary but as a real person; and go back to playful gestures ala #2, just for fun w/o any real motivation other than affection.

[pat-man-ta.livejournal.com]

1, 2, 3, 4, 6

[jasonlizard.livejournal.com]

1, 2, maybe 5, but it's a total hail mary at that point and you're almost playing the sympathy card. Never follow 2 with 1 or you might get to 5 (the new math for you) but it wouldn't be pretty. Alternatively, try 8. Live out 2 until you know the person well enough to realize that you wouldn't want more than an infatuation with them anyway.

[halo.livejournal.com]

1, 7, 3, in that order. Rarely 2. 5 only in emergency cases. 6 only during fits of idealism.

[http://users.livejournal.com/---lis/]

i've tried all but number four, and none of them really work that well. so i'm gonna go with that one. who knows?

[panzerkunst.livejournal.com]

1 for starters.

If you actually have option 3, then shut up already.

JOKE

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[rynsect.livejournal.com]

D.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

Hmm. For me? 2, for a decent chunk of time and then 5. If 5 fails it's 6 and then 1 but without the sulking. Possibly some 7. There's always fantasy. Most people don't want to admit it, but mentally, you can have anyone you want, and you don't need their consent. I like reality, but fantasy is safer on so many different levels.