5. Friendzoning
(1, 2)
"That because you’re nice and treat her well, she therefore owes you at
least one opportunity to present yourself as a viable sexual candidate,
even if she’s already made it clear that this isn’t what she wants. That
because she legitimately enjoys a friendship that you find painful (and
which you’re under no obligation to continue), she is using you."
"...no matter how pure and true your feelings, your ladylove is under no
obligation whatever to reciprocate them, because friendship is not a
business transaction, and women are allowed to want male friends.
Yes, it is difficult and sad and heartbreaking to love someone who
doesn’t love you back, and doubly so when that person is a friend."
"If you don’t care enough about someone to enjoy their company and
respect their decisions when sex is off the table, then that person is
right not to sleep with you, because enjoying someone’s company and
respecting their decisions is pretty much how sex gets on the table to start with."
