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I've been hopelessly infatuated with an NT girl I know for about two and a half years. She's very pretty, kind and fairly intelligent, and we're fairly good friends.

She's never had a boyfriend, despite being asked out on dates by about a dozen boys, and she isn't interested in having one for the time being. I know that I don't meet her standard for a boyfriend, and I've come to accept that I'll never be with her. Additionally, I don't think I'd actually be especially happy in a romantic relationship with her, as I'd have to spend considerable energy maintaining the relationship.

Despite this, I'm really struggling to get over her. She still plays on my mind a lot, even though I've spent two months or so avoiding her. I've barely seen her in person, I've removed her from my MSN favourites and I've blocked her updates on FB. This has worked to an extent, but I still think about her in a romantic way a lot. I want to be free of this, and start viewing her as "just another friend".

I'm told a good way to get over a girl is to see other girls as potential partners, but as I said above, I don't want a relationship (not with any girls I know, at least), and beyond primitive instincts, I don't want sex.
Another good method I've been informed of is getting confirmation from the person that they wouldn't consider you a potential partner, but I don't want to tell her about my feelings as I think that would damage our relationship and cause her pain. I do not want to cause her pain, I'd much rather bottle it up inside myself.

Have any of you been in similar situations? Does anyone have any advice?
Regardless, I think expressing my feelings here. might help in some way.

I think that, if you keep doing those things, you'll start viewing her as "just an old friend for whom I have a crush, but who doesn't talk to me anymore".

yes, this can work. in my own experience i've only found it to be effective if i already kind of was interested in other people, or if i was a little ways on the road of getting over that person already.


i have done this one quite a lot. to be honest, it has frequently (but not always) killed those friendships either immediately or eventually, but i felt that the friendships were in danger if i was pining away anyway. it stops being an honest and truly supportive friendship as long as one of the members actually wants something more. that dissatisfaction with the current state and hoping for something more can wear the relationship down, and it becomes like a hidden motive.

telling your feelings can release the tension and allow the other person to decide what they want to do from that point forward. sometimes it can even result in the person confessing the same feelings. in my experience, it hasn't happened that much, but i think i often fell for the wrong people.

i don't have any better advice, actually, as those two things are the two choices i always defaulted to. well, choice #3 was to take a step away without explaining why, but then the person doesn't understand what's going on and feels betrayed.

Thanks to you both.