In the last months, not only did you enjoy her amazing company during hangouts, but you formed an emotional attachment to her that you weren’t aware of at the time.
As time went on, you became increasingly excited to talk to her and get to know her.
Now that you had to say goodbye to her, you have been affected in a way that you weren’t expecting.
Until this occurred, you believed her to be purely a friend that you were getting to know for a time.
That being said, now that she is gone, you are missing her.
It is hard to let go of someone that you are emotionally attached to.
It almost feels as though you are letting go of a part of yourself.
While she was around, you opened up to her like you never have with anyone else.
Your initial belief that this girl was strictly a friend is the reason why you were so open with her.
There was a sense of gratitude that you had befriended someone you could be yourself with.
You talked to her about anything and everything.
Being in love or emotionally attached to someone has a proclivity to sneak up on you.
It isn’t unusual to not be aware of it until you have to say goodbye to someone.
Sometimes, we take time for granted.
We innately know that it is limited and yet we refuse to acknowledge it.
This is where we make ourselves believe that we have all the time in the world with someone, when in reality we don’t.
It was hard for you to say goodbye to her because you thought you had more time to come to terms with how you were feeling about her.
As far as you were concerned, all you needed was a few more conversations with her to figure out whether these were true romantic feelings that you were experiencing for her.
This is what many of us do.
We delay and procrastinate when it comes to expressing our feelings to someone, as we either don’t understand those feelings, or are too worried about being so transparent to that person.
However, the fact that you found it hard to say goodbye to her indicates that your romantic feelings towards her have been there for a while.
Think back to when you started feeling as though there was more to your relationship with her than strictly platonic friendship.
It was a day where you realized that you couldn’t stop thinking about her, and you had to distract yourself with doing a variety of activities.
It was a time when something someone else said to you instantly reminded you of her, and you suddenly got that warm, loving, and yet nervous feeling inside of you.
There were a number of moments where your intuition was trying to tell you that you had romantic feelings for her.
Next time you have an experience like this with someone else, use your experience with this particular girl to gauge whether there are romantic feelings involved.
This way, you get to act on those romantic feelings before you find yourself having to say goodbye to the person.
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