Step One - Talk to your best friend.
First thing you would do is talk to your best friend. Ask her if she likes your crush. (Or if they've been secretly dating or something. Which I only say this because of that rumor where they got scolded by the faculty).
-If she doesn't like him, tell her you do and maybe ask for her support.
-If she does like him, tell her you like him to, tell her the other things I'm going to say, and that you hope you can still be friends at the end.
-If she has been secretly been dating him, get over your crush.

Step Two - Talk to your crush.
Next thing is to tell your crush directly face to face that you like him. Yes this will be hard, but liking a guy for 7 years and not doing anything is too passive, and won't get you anyway.
( Get your head out of the clouds thinking just because you like someone, and give hints that you two will suddenly get together one day. Things don't work like that. If he knows he likes you he will pursue you. If he doesn't have feelings towards you, he may need that little eye opening moment to view you in a different light.)
Maybe not say that you've liked him for 7 years, but say you've liked him for a while. I want to say just tell him that you like him, and not mention dating ... but really that's up to you, the mood, and how he takes your news.

Step Three - Sink or swim ....
Here is mainly waiting. IF he didn't reject you right away after step two. You're pretty much going to have to wait for an either "I think I like you too" or "sorry I just don't have those feelings for you". How do you act during this time? Well don't avoid him, but also don't hang all over him. Try to act as normal as possible.
IF you haven't heard anything in ... a month? Talk to him again, ask if he's sorted out his feelings or not.

-If he tells you he likes you back. Great you can start dating and maybe actually fall in love with him.
-If he rejects you. Okay, now you don't have to spend more time liking someone who will never like you back. Give up on him, deal with it. (Either vent to friends, listen to sad music, find some new crush, whatever). or not deal with it and stay hung up on him and become a sad **** that is a downer.
(This is why it's called sink or swim >.>)
-If you have to confront him a second time. I want to say this time you reject him. It doesn't take that long to know if you like someone or not. And if he's too chicken to tell you (ever though you confessed first), or too much of a ***** to gently let you know, well either way it's not a guy you want to go out with.

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• Talk to your best friend
• Confess to your crush
• Get rejected, and get over him. Or accepted and start dating.

Good Luck. 😀

-Sidenote: Stop calling it love. At most it's an extreme case of puppy love. Those aren't hard to get over ...

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First of all, getting out of this without getting hurt or any other implications is not possible when feelings are involved to such a degree.

Correct me if I'm wrong:
you liked him for 7 years and got closer, but he didn't notice. So you are either completely sneaky in showing your affection or he is just slow... way too slow...

as other people said already, if that really is the case, say something to him, because it drags on for another 7 years otherwise

A question: does your best friend like him? because I don't think so, opposed to some other people here. I'd say you and your best friend talk about that stuff, especially romance and crushes. And if she really does, kindly show her the way to the moon via the closest rocket launching site, because she would be a bit** for not telling you even though you chrushed on him for years.

what I suggest you do:

1. if unsure ask your best friend for her feelings (but as explained it is somehow irrelevant)
2. confess to him
   2.a success: be happy
   2.b failure: depending on the reason (he should have one) there are different possibilities:

• he just doesn't like you that way -> bad luck, either try to win him over or don't and keep your distance or stay as you are (don't do that because it will hurt, that really is dependent on your character, some can live with that others can't, more like most can't, judging from your post and situation you are such a person)
• he likes your friend but she doesn't like him -> you could tell him, or not, your choice
• he likes your best friend and she likes him -> get out of there, she clearly couldn't even say something to you for your sake, it would just get worse

and to repeat important things again:
**getting out of this without getting hurt or any other implications is not possible when feelings are involved to such a degree.

as long as your best friend doesn't like him there is no reason for your relation to get ruined.**

@justneedair:
I'll report your post for deletion, pls stay on topic and don't be mean to other members.

@knightzo: depends on the effort, I kinda have the picture of a girl veeery slowly getting closer without any clear indications about her intentions.

but I have to admit:
he probably isn't your match, if in 7 years your affection for him wasn't enough to make a direct approach

edit: kitty beat me to it

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uncommon, sad, sweet

Asking for help on the internet is like asking to bully yourself. :3

huh...? People tend to be more helpful on the net than Irl, just see how many who has responded to this topic.

aaaand back to the actual problem...

I think you should tell him your feelings. If he doesn't feel the same, too bad. If he does, then Congratz. Either way you're the winner, because if ( just if ) he doesn't like you, than I'm pretty sure you will find something better. And yes, it will hurt, for a long time. But that's just part of life.

Good luck hun.

Step 1: Stop listening to rumors about your friends. If you're concerned about whatever rumors, you asked the people involved directly. This is just being respectful.

Step 2: Let your best friend know you're confessing to him for your own piece of mind and encourage her to do so too. If she feels insulted and never wants to talk to you again, then she is a shitty best friend and needs to grow up.

Step 3: You confess to your crush. He might feel bad that he never figured it out. If he knew you liked him this entire time, then sorry, a kind of douche for not being considerate of your feelings more. If he chooses to date either of you, things will be awkward for a few months at most. If both of you never forgive each other, then your friendship probably wasn't going to work out in the grand scheme of things.

If you choose to do none of this then you're creating unnecessary drama for yourself and you're going to stew in your own, "what if"s for years. Have some self-preservation and just tell the guy. I know you're scared of rejection, but its been 7 damn years.

Also, just some advice, you can't make people fall in love with you. The best you can do is show your object of affection who you are as a person and tell them you're interested in dating.

I can be mean and disrespectful as long as I follow rules. :3
God, i wanted to laugh about OP, but all your advices are top notch. You actually try to be serious on the matter.
I just want to know how old are you, love-masters.^^

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@knightzo: depends on the effort, I kinda have the picture of a girl veeery slowly getting closer without any clear indications about her intentions.

Dunno,

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wow! seven years and i kept trying so hard to make him fall for me

Ahhh, the OP was the same person from the bestfriend problem, right?..
Must be hard..

Edit:
@justneedair, LOL,
We just don‘t have anything better to do,
Unlike a troller like you, haha...
Are you a troll now??

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It's kind of the rule of the jungle that if you ask for advice on the internet, someone is gonna say something mean. 😛 I'll admit this situation seems kind of dumb but I bet she's pretty young...

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I can be mean and disrespectful as long as I follow rules. :3
God, i wanted to laugh about OP, but all your advices are top notch. You actually try to be serious on the matter.
I just want to know how old are you, love-masters.^^

is that first sentence for real?
so you would randomly kill people if it was allowed? what kind of reasoning is that? -.-
and here I was thinking the generation after me was the immoral and disrespectful one...

and the age is written on the profile page for most members here.

please don't be mean and disrespectful unless you have an actual reason - someone having a problem sure as hell isn't 🙄

@fawkes: neither is being young

but let's stay on topic

in need of romance?
uncommon, sad, sweet

Thanks everyone there are useful answers thanks 🙂

@justneedair: im not asking on internet to bully myself im only hearing other's opinions because they all have different thinking and your reply really hurt, THINK before you ACT or else a lot of people will hate you... 😃

Actually i already confessed to that guy twice and i also got rejected TWICE too. 🙁 (

What im going to do now: is to move on after i confess to him (even though i got rejected twice, i think it's the best to tell him how much i love him before saying goodbye) on our recognition day.

Thanks alot guys i think im gonna avoid him next year xD because if i do not i'll just fall for him again 🙂 because last summer i decided to move on and it was a great success of avoiding him because in that way my feelings for him wont develop anymore however, one day he sat behind me during mapeh (our teacher didn't went inside our classroom cause she's busy) and started to tease me with his friend because of that we started not to AVOID each other again and because of that i fell in love with him again, funny right? but it's true.

anyway thanks a lot again 🙂

PS: im also kannyah xD LOL sorry for not telling and i also replied to my topic on my bestfriend problems because i already know the answer myself 🙂 and i forgot my password on that acc. sorry for not telling and sorry for the errors i made on my last question xD

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What i am going to do to my bestfriend: i will ask her face to face if she still love my crush because we are both head over heels over him last year (we actually fight over him a lot of times already xD)

Now in the present she kept saying that she doesn't love him anymore but i always heard from others that she's still inlove with him (i think she's telling lies on me that she doesn't love him anymore and i dont had a clue why?) and if she still does i will let my crush go and i will cheer them on if they started dating (i know it'll hurt but i'll DO try)

And i will post again on march 27 or 28 if things get well in my confession or not 🙂 because on march 28 it's already our recognition day so it will be better if i confessed to him before recognition day 🙂

PS: i'll be on 3rd year high school/grade 9 (K-12) after the recognition day 🙂 so there will be 3 more years that i'll be seeing him. (aughh 3 years, same section and same grade.. hope i WONT fall inlove with him anymore 🙂 )

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After hearing the whole story.
Which leaving out - You confessed twice before, your friend and you did like him at one point, and oh you already got rejected twice. (All things you should have mentioned in the OP)

I would like to change my previous advice to - get over him. If he rejected you twice, what makes you think he'll change his mind/feelings the third time? Have some self respect and stop pining over a guy who clearly doesn't feel the same way. You can't make anyone have feelings for you, and if he doesn't like you, well there's plenty of other fish in the sea. If you did finally give up maybe you'll notice another guy who actually returns your feelings.

Get over him 😁

-Sidenote. Really stop calling it love. It makes me sick. I'm not saying you can't love someone that young, but when it's just a crush. Yeah, it's not love it's a crush. At best puppy love.

• I'm not trying to be mean, just honestly blunt.

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ok, thanks and sorry for the mistakes ^_^ thanks a lot 😀 and also im not thinking that if i confess the third time i'll get a chance it's just my way of saying goodbye to him, my other confess means that i want to date him but now it means to say goodbye and this will be the last time that i will fall for him if i got rejected.

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Uhhh, not sure,
Just my opinion..

Don‘t confess anymore, it may just make someone look pitiable...
Sorry for the word..

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i think i'll still confess because i will move on after that, i know that i may look stupid if i got rejected but it's fine because i was able to express my feelings 🙂 thanks

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i think i'll still confess because i will move on after that, i know that i may look stupid if i got rejected but it's fine because i was able to express my feelings 🙂 thanks

I applaud you. Unrequited love is so hard and to think that it's been years. And you're brave. I've never been the first one to confess.

I'm with you. At least you know that you did your best and with this, can make a clean break.

If your bestfriend really loves him, don't you think that you should just be happy for them? I know it'd hurt like hell but hey, it's not your friend's fault. You shouldn't let your friendship suffer because of this. You can also talk to her and tell her that you hurt and would need time to move on.

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