I (M29) confessed to my best friend’s ex (F29) and asked her out.

They broke up 7 months ago and he gave me his blessing. I swear I did not have feelings for her when they were together. When they were dating, her and I were extremely close but I didn’t see her as anything other than a friend. When they broke up we tried to stay friends but it didn’t work out so we stopped talking. That’s when I realized I liked her. Losing her like that hurt a lot. At that point we had been texting and calling daily for over a year, and losing her like that was torture.

I decided I would wait and gradually forget about her but it didn’t work. I missed her more and more as time passed. 3 months later it was just unbearable so I decided would talk to her, confess and ask her out. First, I gathered my friend’s and just told everyone there. Surprisingly, they were all very happy for me and cheered me on. Her ex seemed the happiest. They were all very supportive and told me they all thought for the longest time her and I liked each other. That was a huge load taken off my chest, honestly.

I just had to talk to her now. I reached out and she seemed really happy to talk to me. We made some small talk and she told me she about how busy she was in general with school and work. I told her I had something I wanted to tell her so it’d be great if she could shoot me text later at night when she was free. She did and asked me what was it that I wanted to tell her. I intended to send a maybe 10 line text but it turned out to be more like 60 lines long. I didn’t pour my heart into it. It got that long because I just wanted to explain myself correctly to her I think. I kept the part about my feelings light but honest. And lastly I included a final message asking her to please not reply tonight (yes, this just happened) because I have a very important dinner tomorrow with some high ranking executives from work and I absolutely cannot attend that dinner with my heart shattered to pieces should she reject me.

Anyway, so now I’m waiting. I’m gonna get a reply by tomorrow night hopefully and if the post picks up I’ll update.