Hi, you're really good at giving advice. I was wondering if maybe I could ask you for some too. This is partly asking for advice/and partly just getting this out of my system. It's about this girl I met about two months ago. We met each other in a residential hall at the same university we'd just started at. Well, something clicked between us, and we became really good friends. And I mean really good to the extent that we were almost living together (we were neighbours on our floor, did everything together, shopping, cooking, eating, laundry, go out) The only thing is, she had a boyfriend back in New Zealand (where by coincidence we were both from) She was having a hard time with him and there were a couple of times when she'd sit with me and just cry on my shoulder. We spent an incredible amount of time together that first month, with at least 10 all nighters just talking and laughing. When she was leaving for a holiday to NZ for a week to see her boyfriend, she told me she would miss me a lot. The night before she left she even told me she didn't want to go. She was planning on breaking up with him. We didn't see each other for two weeks or so and when we did again our friendship sparked up again stronger than before. But she didn't break up with him. This is about the time she let me know that she would be leaving this university because of sickness in the family and she would go study elsewhere. So we had about 3 weeks left together. Those last few weeks flew by, with insane amounts of time spent together. And she was still having issues with her boyfriend. I dunno why, but I kept telling her to give him another chance, it would get better. And she did. The week before she left we sat down and talked about what would happen to us when she did go, we planned out a whole lot of things to do before she did. I stayed up with her on the last night helping her pack. We got to talking again and she started crying about not wanting to leave. She said she was afraid of what would happen to our friendship. She asked me to sleep in her room. So I slept in her armchair, and woke up the next morning to make her breakfast. That day, before she left, she bought me a cactus and told me to look after it. Everytime I water it, it meant that I had to call her/contact her. She made me promise to come and see her in London as soon as possible. I don't know about her. Could she have fallen for me like I fell for her? I feel like I should be waiting on her instead of getting into any other relationship for the next year or two until I see her again. Should I wait for her?
I think as much as it’s useful, necessary even, for her to have someone to confide in right now and he chose you. I mean, by that alone you can already say that you mean something for her. The question would be, does she loves you the way you love her? Gestures are gestures, chances are people may misinterpret them. What is love gesture for you may just be a friend gesture for the other. You haven’t told her right, The way you really feel about her? And also you keep on telling her to fix things with his boyfriend and that things would get better, which is a good thing by the way; it only means that you respect her being in a relationship right now but do you think you are giving her mixed signals as well? By that, maybe she sees you just a friend, someone who will always be there, someone to confide with. You have questions left unanswered, that is the problem and it makes things difficult for you. But maybe this is not the right time for questioning, she has her own set of problems with her family, just let her fix things for her this time and maybe when things get better why wait? you can just grab her, invite for a little talk and then tell her everything, then you can decide.