From my personal experience, years of platonic friendship somehow transpired in my head to romantic feelings after I relocated to a different city and was incredibly lonely. At the time, it was hard to see it as anything other than what I was telling myself natural friendship progression.
Looking back on it, it was absolutely the loneliness. I did act on my feelings at the time and told the guy how I felt. It made things really awkward because the feelings were not returned. Since I opened my mouth, our friendship has never recovered to the extremely close level we used to have.
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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna
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