bgsugirlie, you read my mind, because I was gonna post a thread about this same thing!
This has happened to me a few times, but I can just never bring myself to tell the guy that no, I am not attracted to him, and no, there's not a chance that we could turn it into a lovely romance. But my problem doesn't just stop there...I seem to have a problem telling everyone exactly what I think, which is why I get stuck doing stuff no one else wants to do because I'm too spineless to just say no!
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James, let me tell you, if it's the case that she's afraid to tell the guy straight up that she doesn't like him in that way because she's afraid he won't like her, her fears are well-founded. Where do you think a lot of my good guy friends went? Well, they wanted to date, I wanted to stay friends and I told them that...and they quit talking to me.