text: Purposefully anonymous, but woooo boy

[zukeini]

I'm wondering if other people are good at coming with answers on this because I'm kinda not. I'm really not, actually.

But what should you do if you catch "feelings" for someone. Who you know is in a relationship with someone else, but you also think you have "feelings" for that person too? And another person? You think you do?

But like, also it's you realizing that this means you're not straight.

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post dimitri

[zukeini]

Yeah, I can't anymore. I've been flipping flopping on it still but...I'm starting to feel braver, I guess.

post dimitri...........no one is safe

[cyan_maid]

Good! That's good.
I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors, though don't feel like you absolutely must tell everyone how it works out, okay?

He’s dead

[zukeini]

I have a feeling this is going to bite me in the rear at some point anyway. I think everyone’s gonna know by then.

uhoh

[cyan_maid]

Don't think of it that way!
You really will not know unless you try, and trying is the most important thing!

[zukeini]

I just don't wanna mess up. You know? Everyone's been trying to tell me that, but also that I should keep my mouth shut.

[cyan_maid]

[Oh ow that's

that hits right in the feels right there]

I can't say I don't know what you mean, because I do. Really, I do.
But I also know how much keeping things to yourself can hurt. And...how much more likely they are to end badly if things aren't brought up promptly.
Looking back on it, I think that if I'd said the things I wanted to say from the start and failed, I could have managed to overcome whatever might've happened with time, and
I believe that the same can be said for anyone.
It is the act that holds the most power, in this case. The power to change things in your life, the power to know where to go from this moment.
And I think there's a quote about that, too..."It's better to have loved and lost, rather to have never loved at all"?
Paraphrased, of course, from the actual words of a British poet, but true nonetheless.

[zukeini]

[...]

No, that's pretty accurate. I guess paraphrasing it more would mean that you have to be realistic and honest. Being one way or the other just is going to make things worse for everyone.

Remembering things with that perspective, me not talking has made things worse before.

[cyan_maid]

Do know that I am rooting for you, anonymous stranger. :B

[zukeini]

Hah, thanks right back, kind anon.