Highsides / Lowsides

How to finally cure yourself of a foolish crush

Person A is someone you’ve had varying levels of crush on for a long time.
Person B is someone who you were friends with once, but due to circumstances, are no longer in contact with.

Person A, Person B and you used to go out together occasionally and Person A and Person B seemed good friends.

Person B was in a long term relationship. However, you discovered from Person C that Person B was having an affair. Neither you nor Person C knew who the Mystery Lover is. Person C suggested it might be Person A, but you dismissed this, even though you had a niggling suspicion yourself.

A year passes, events unfurl, you no longer are in contact with Persons B or C, but you still see Person A occasionally. Like a few nights ago. Conversations with Person A these days seem to have de-evolved to discussing Person A’s love/sex life. You discover that Person A was having relationships with several people last year that were married. You discuss these affairs over a few beers, without naming names of course, and both go your own ways.

But that niggling has become a full tugging. And so, you decide, after a year of wondering, to ask the question. Alright, asking by SMS might have been wrong (yeah, I know, tacky) but it was a huge spur of the moment action.

So you ask.

And you know, regardless of the answer, you won’t be able to see Person A anymore.

And you're relieved because you're sick of feeling foolish.