u/nobody24802

i think my (ex) male best friends is in love with me

I would really like to get everyone’s advice and opinion on this story because this just happened a week ago to me and I don’t know what to do or what to think. I don’t know exactly where to start but I have known this guy since 2023 because we are in the same class and he was in a relationship with one of my then close friends that is also in our class for like a year. then at the end of 2025 in October I went through a break up and then we really started getting close and he was there for me and our friendship became really good, i could tell him everything and he always made me cheer up and made me happy. at one point our friendship started to get like really weird where people started constantly asking us if we were together and all of that because he really likes physical touch, especially with me. we would just be standing around school or sitting in our class and he would be hugging me or he would lick my hand for some reason or play with my hair or something like that. now where this all gets interesting is last week we were on a school trip for 10 days in Italy in Spain and all of that and for the first three days we were constantly together like he was in my room with my friends, we were together talking on the bus and all of that. also when i was sick on the second day of the trip he spent the day in our room trying to cheer me up and distract me from sickness. it was really nice, then he randomly came up to me and hugged me in my room and told me that he missed me a lot. And then we went to a club and he got drunk and when he was drunk, he came up to me and hugged me and told me that I’m his favourite person in the class even though his guy best friends are in our class and all of that, I mean he told me multiple times before that I’m his favourite person in the class and then we can always talk. Then throughout the whole night he was constantly hugging me but not just a regular hug. He was like cuddled up to me laying on my neck laying on my chest we almost kissed a couple of times then his best friend came up to me and told me like “come on give him a chance, are you two official finally” and stuff like. And that hugging continued throughout the whole night where we would hug for at least a minute a minute and a half where we would “cuddle”. then in the middle of the night while I was standing he came up and picked me up and held me in the air for a good minute. then we were in front of the club waiting for our professors and he sat down next to me and laid on my chest and hugged me and we were sitting down like that for maybe 5 to 10 minutes and everybody was looking at us. After that, we were in the hotel and I guess my best friend came up to him and told him that the whole situation is uncomfortable and he apologised to me if he made me uncomfortable or anything like that and I told him that he didn’t and that I enjoyed it. And that is the last time we spoke because the next day he refused to speak to me or to my friends he ignored us. He bought a T-shirt that says I love my ex. He started texting his ex again and I caught him multiple times just staring at me and looking at me or waiting for my reaction or something like that or when we were on the bus, he was trying to be extremely loud so I can hear him. And when he saw me talking to my ex, he was just stearing at us like really obviously and I guess that bothers him. I forgot to mention that the day after all of that happened I actually came up to him and asked him if he is mad at me or if I did something and he just brushed it off and said everything’s fine and all of that, even though I know it is not. now I have asked every single person for their opinion and they told me that he is probably in love with me and that he felt some type of guilt because of the whole situation and because he was drunk and basically confessed to me all of that and I didn’t give him a reaction back because I do not like him. another thing that is important about him is that he is obsessed with attention and the moment I didn’t give him that attention back meaning like a kiss or a relationship he started talking with his ex again and tried to make me jealous. i’m currently really sad that I lost such a good friend because I have to see him every day in school and we can’t even say hi to each other and I don’t know if I did something wrong. Maybe the only thing is that I was hugging him back and giving him that attention and maybe leading him on I guess. but I would really like other perspectives and maybe a male perspective of all of this because I don’t.
please help guys

if anyone has any questions about my story or anything they would like to know, i would love to tell you.
please help guys

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u/nobody24802 — 1 day ago
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i think my (ex) male best friend is in love with me

I would really like to get everyone’s advice and opinion on this story because this just happened a week ago to me and I don’t know what to do or what to think. I don’t know exactly where to start but I have known this guy since 2023 because we are in the same class and he was in a relationship with one of my then close friends that is also in our class for like a year. then at the end of 2025 in October I went through a break up and then we really started getting close and he was there for me and our friendship became really good, i could tell him everything and he always made me cheer up and made me happy. at one point our friendship started to get like really weird where people started constantly asking us if we were together and all of that because he really likes physical touch, especially with me. we would just be standing around school or sitting in our class and he would be hugging me or he would lick my hand for some reason or play with my hair or something like that. now where this all gets interesting is last week we were on a school trip for 10 days in Italy in Spain and all of that and for the first three days we were constantly together like he was in my room with my friends, we were together talking on the bus and all of that. also when i was sick on the second day of the trip he spent the day in our room trying to cheer me up and distract me from sickness. it was really nice, then he randomly came up to me and hugged me in my room and told me that he missed me a lot. And then we went to a club and he got drunk and when he was drunk, he came up to me and hugged me and told me that I’m his favourite person in the class even though his guy best friends are in our class and all of that, I mean he told me multiple times before that I’m his favourite person in the class and then we can always talk. Then throughout the whole night he was constantly hugging me but not just a regular hug. He was like cuddled up to me laying on my neck laying on my chest we almost kissed a couple of times then his best friend came up to me and told me like “come on give him a chance, are you two official finally” and stuff like. And that hugging continued throughout the whole night where we would hug for at least a minute a minute and a half where we would “cuddle”. then in the middle of the night while I was standing he came up and picked me up and held me in the air for a good minute. then we were in front of the club waiting for our professors and he sat down next to me and laid on my chest and hugged me and we were sitting down like that for maybe 5 to 10 minutes and everybody was looking at us. After that, we were in the hotel and I guess my best friend came up to him and told him that the whole situation is uncomfortable and he apologised to me if he made me uncomfortable or anything like that and I told him that he didn’t and that I enjoyed it. And that is the last time we spoke because the next day he refused to speak to me or to my friends he ignored us. He bought a T-shirt that says I love my ex. He started texting his ex again and I caught him multiple times just staring at me and looking at me or waiting for my reaction or something like that or when we were on the bus, he was trying to be extremely loud so I can hear him. And when he saw me talking to my ex, he was just stearing at us like really obviously and I guess that bothers him. I forgot to mention that the day after all of that happened I actually came up to him and asked him if he is mad at me or if I did something and he just brushed it off and said everything’s fine and all of that, even though I know it is not. now I have asked every single person for their opinion and they told me that he is probably in love with me and that he felt some type of guilt because of the whole situation and because he was drunk and basically confessed to me all of that and I didn’t give him a reaction back because I do not like him. another thing that is important about him is that he is obsessed with attention and the moment I didn’t give him that attention back meaning like a kiss or a relationship he started talking with his ex again and tried to make me jealous. i’m currently really sad that I lost such a good friend because I have to see him every day in school and we can’t even say hi to each other and I don’t know if I did something wrong. Maybe the only thing is that I was hugging him back and giving him that attention and maybe leading him on I guess. but I would really like other perspectives and maybe a male perspective of all of this because I don’t.
please help guys

if anyone has any questions about my story or anything they would like to know, i would love to tell you.
please help guys

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u/nobody24802 — 1 day ago

i think my (ex) male best friend is in love with me

I would really like to get everyone’s advice and opinion on this story because this just happened a week ago to me and I don’t know what to do or what to think. I don’t know exactly where to start but I have known this guy since 2023 because we are in the same class and he was in a relationship with one of my then close friends that is also in our class for like a year. then at the end of 2025 in October I went through a break up and then we really started getting close and he was there for me and our friendship became really good, i could tell him everything and he always made me cheer up and made me happy. at one point our friendship started to get like really weird where people started constantly asking us if we were together and all of that because he really likes physical touch, especially with me. we would just be standing around school or sitting in our class and he would be hugging me or he would lick my hand for some reason or play with my hair or something like that. now where this all gets interesting is last week we were on a school trip for 10 days in Italy in Spain and all of that and for the first three days we were constantly together like he was in my room with my friends, we were together talking on the bus and all of that. also when i was sick on the second day of the trip he spent the day in our room trying to cheer me up and distract me from sickness. it was really nice, then he randomly came up to me and hugged me in my room and told me that he missed me a lot. And then we went to a club and he got drunk and when he was drunk, he came up to me and hugged me and told me that I’m his favourite person in the class even though his guy best friends are in our class and all of that, I mean he told me multiple times before that I’m his favourite person in the class and then we can always talk. Then throughout the whole night he was constantly hugging me but not just a regular hug. He was like cuddled up to me laying on my neck laying on my chest we almost kissed a couple of times then his best friend came up to me and told me like “come on give him a chance, are you two official finally” and stuff like. And that hugging continued throughout the whole night where we would hug for at least a minute a minute and a half where we would “cuddle”. then in the middle of the night while I was standing he came up and picked me up and held me in the air for a good minute. then we were in front of the club waiting for our professors and he sat down next to me and laid on my chest and hugged me and we were sitting down like that for maybe 5 to 10 minutes and everybody was looking at us. After that, we were in the hotel and I guess my best friend came up to him and told him that the whole situation is uncomfortable and he apologised to me if he made me uncomfortable or anything like that and I told him that he didn’t and that I enjoyed it. And that is the last time we spoke because the next day he refused to speak to me or to my friends he ignored us. He bought a T-shirt that says I love my ex. He started texting his ex again and I caught him multiple times just staring at me and looking at me or waiting for my reaction or something like that or when we were on the bus, he was trying to be extremely loud so I can hear him. And when he saw me talking to my ex, he was just stearing at us like really obviously and I guess that bothers him. I forgot to mention that the day after all of that happened I actually came up to him and asked him if he is mad at me or if I did something and he just brushed it off and said everything’s fine and all of that, even though I know it is not. now I have asked every single person for their opinion and they told me that he is probably in love with me and that he felt some type of guilt because of the whole situation and because he was drunk and basically confessed to me all of that and I didn’t give him a reaction back because I do not like him. another thing that is important about him is that he is obsessed with attention and the moment I didn’t give him that attention back meaning like a kiss or a relationship he started talking with his ex again and tried to make me jealous. i’m currently really sad that I lost such a good friend because I have to see him every day in school and we can’t even say hi to each other and I don’t know if I did something wrong. Maybe the only thing is that I was hugging him back and giving him that attention and maybe leading him on I guess. but I would really like other perspectives and maybe a male perspective of all of this because I don’t.
please help guys

if anyone has any questions about my story or anything they would like to know, i would love to tell you.
please help guys

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u/nobody24802 — 1 day ago

i think my (ex) male best friend is in love with me

I would really like to get everyone’s advice and opinion on this story because this just happened a week ago to me and I don’t know what to do or what to think. I don’t know exactly where to start but I have known this guy since 2023 because we are in the same class and he was in a relationship with one of my then close friends that is also in our class for like a year. then at the end of 2025 in October I went through a break up and then we really started getting close and he was there for me and our friendship became really good, i could tell him everything and he always made me cheer up and made me happy. at one point our friendship started to get like really weird where people started constantly asking us if we were together and all of that because he really likes physical touch, especially with me. we would just be standing around school or sitting in our class and he would be hugging me or he would lick my hand for some reason or play with my hair or something like that. now where this all gets interesting is last week we were on a school trip for 10 days in Italy in Spain and all of that and for the first three days we were constantly together like he was in my room with my friends, we were together talking on the bus and all of that. also when i was sick on the second day of the trip he spent the day in our room trying to cheer me up and distract me from sickness. it was really nice, then he randomly came up to me and hugged me in my room and told me that he missed me a lot. And then we went to a club and he got drunk and when he was drunk, he came up to me and hugged me and told me that I’m his favourite person in the class even though his guy best friends are in our class and all of that, I mean he told me multiple times before that I’m his favourite person in the class and then we can always talk. Then throughout the whole night he was constantly hugging me but not just a regular hug. He was like cuddled up to me laying on my neck laying on my chest we almost kissed a couple of times then his best friend came up to me and told me like “come on give him a chance, are you two official finally” and stuff like. And that hugging continued throughout the whole night where we would hug for at least a minute a minute and a half where we would “cuddle”. then in the middle of the night while I was standing he came up and picked me up and held me in the air for a good minute. then we were in front of the club waiting for our professors and he sat down next to me and laid on my chest and hugged me and we were sitting down like that for maybe 5 to 10 minutes and everybody was looking at us. After that, we were in the hotel and I guess my best friend came up to him and told him that the whole situation is uncomfortable and he apologised to me if he made me uncomfortable or anything like that and I told him that he didn’t and that I enjoyed it. And that is the last time we spoke because the next day he refused to speak to me or to my friends he ignored us. He bought a T-shirt that says I love my ex. He started texting his ex again and I caught him multiple times just staring at me and looking at me or waiting for my reaction or something like that or when we were on the bus, he was trying to be extremely loud so I can hear him. And when he saw me talking to my ex, he was just stearing at us like really obviously and I guess that bothers him. I forgot to mention that the day after all of that happened I actually came up to him and asked him if he is mad at me or if I did something and he just brushed it off and said everything’s fine and all of that, even though I know it is not. now I have asked every single person for their opinion and they told me that he is probably in love with me and that he felt some type of guilt because of the whole situation and because he was drunk and basically confessed to me all of that and I didn’t give him a reaction back because I do not like him. another thing that is important about him is that he is obsessed with attention and the moment I didn’t give him that attention back meaning like a kiss or a relationship he started talking with his ex again and tried to make me jealous. i’m currently really sad that I lost such a good friend because I have to see him every day in school and we can’t even say hi to each other and I don’t know if I did something wrong. Maybe the only thing is that I was hugging him back and giving him that attention and maybe leading him on I guess. but I would really like other perspectives and maybe a male perspective of all of this because I don’t.

if anyone has any questions about my story or anything they would like to know, i would love to tell you.
please help guys

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u/nobody24802 — 1 day ago