If you honestly like someone then wouldn't you just go for it?
Or is "just friends" another way of letting a girl down gently?
My best friend (a guy who i REALLY like and told this to) said that he thinks friends is the best idea because we REALLY are amazing friends and he doesn't want to lose touch with my flat if things fell apart and also because he doesn't want to lose me.

Then he said "i wanna know you forever but be friends for a while" ... WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!?!

He keeps giving me hope then saying "just friends" and  then acting with me in a way only someone who liked you would...so much so that all of our friends are convinced someting's going on. We're SOSO close and he's said he's thught about us and the possibility but decided friends would be the best idea because of the reasons i said before....if u really liked someone would u say "just friends" or is he just trying not to upset me?
:( :(

What do you think??
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Everyone around us is convinced he likes me because of how cuddly, touchy feely he is and he's NOT like that with anyone else...he cuddled me not long back and was stroking my back under my top and kissing my head and playing with my hair and holding my hand...a cuddle a boyfriend would give...then says we should only be friends when I asked him about it! To me i was in dreamland and it hurt knowing it meant nothing to him in that way...

I think he's REALLY confused (or maybe that's just me being hopeful...) but is there a way to test if he's just confused and actually does like me ... a way to stop him from putting up the friends barrier if he does like me...

obvioulsy if not i'd respect that (and get over the horribleness that would come with it), as ive done in the past, but it just seems to me (for the first time in my life ive thought this could be a possibility) and others that he does like me yet he says "just friends"...

I've tried talking to him about it but i really cant push it anymore...am settling with friends as I dont want to lose him by making his confusion worse or going on...I just want to know for sure then I can keep my hope OR move on (however hard it'll be)

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It KILLS me tho cos I like him sooooo much and to know there's a possibility of him liking me but stopping things from happening becuse of a worry of something that's just never ever going to hapen (losing me) then...ARGH!