Redditors who've had someone "confess their love" to you, how did you react? Are you together?

I had this happen a scary amount of times in my life since seventh grade. I'm counting 17 guys and 4 girls but I may be undershooting that first number. Without fail every single guy I have gotten close to has done this. The very first person I sat down next to in my very first class on my very first day of public school was the first of many. Even my current guy friends that I've been close with for years, every single one of them have confessed at some point.

The reaction is different depending on the person for me. I would handle the situation very differently if it was my good friend of many years compared with someone I had known for a few weeks or even days.

The very first time I kindly told him that, one, we were in seventh grade and it was way too early to be dating anyone, and two, that I didn't feel the same. After that he put notes in my locker threatening to off himself if I didn't change my mind. It was all stupid dramatic but I'm happy to report that six years later he's still alright.

The next time I was so scared of a repeat of the first that I actually agreed to go out with him but then after a week of desperately trying to learn about his interests he broke up with me because "we didn't know each other" proving to me yet again that I was a trophy XD

This continued all though High School with all sorts of guys, none of them taking the time to actually get to know me. I had a couple good guy friends at the time who confessed to me in that window and theirs meant a lot more to me obviously. But with each one I had to politely say that I couldn't love them the way they loved me and that I was sorry.

This thing happening all the time made me really pessimistic towards the whole idea. They'd just get close to ask me out then when I said no they'd get angry and leave me. Only a few have stuck around. Then I left High School after two years for an Early College program and, despite being 16, two thirty-year-old men (one of them married with a kid) confessed to me before finding out my age.

It has dropped a lot since going to college but it still happens at least once a term. Each time there's this moment when I know they're interested and it's terrible because I know that it'll go down in flames and that I'll hurt them. And I really would love to have all these people in my life but once they find out that the end goal of winning me over isn't possible I'm no longer worth their time.

There was one boy who I didn't mention, though. Three years ago I met this dork in High School that absolutely floored me. He was a video game nerd, had an affinity for Dad Jokes, and has the most amazing brown eyes I have ever seen. Just when I thought there was no way and that all love related thing sucked terribly, this guy, this total dork, shows up. The issue with this asshole was that he showed no interest in me at all. It was beyond frustrating, like really? The only one I want I can't get XD I couldn't help but think it was karma.

Long story, that spans a year, short, I did win him over and he confessed to me in three origami ninja stars that I had to unfold to find the message. I will never forget that moment. <3 And now here we are two + years later, totally happy.

The asking me out constantly thing hasn't changed, though. Someone confessed to me while I was holding hands with my boyfriend.

Tl;Dr: I'm confessed to all the time, but in the end I did manage to win the dork over that I fell for. :D

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