sad truth

That's where the coins come in.

10/10 would hook up with you casually.
Seriously though, you're quite handsome.

Here's one:
Met this guy at work. We became very close friends. 1 year later another male colleague gives me a massage. He gets inexplicably upset. MY friends at work are also upset with me (wtf).They point out he's in love with me. They all try to pressure me into giving him a chance. Don't want to...it will ruin our friendship+not attracted to him. His friends try to pressure him to ask me out. Won't cause I'm pretty attractive and like books, and he's tall and skinny and likes video games, and his most used app is a dictionary app he uses to look up the things I tell him.

One night I receive a message from him: 'Hey can I ask you a question?' 'Sure'. Three minutes of 'errr' and 'urmm' and 'uhhh' then 'uh nvm'. Realise he just tried to ask me out. Panicking, asks best friend what do. She verbally kicks my ass; she's all for him.

Reluctantly (so reluctantly...) I ask HIM out. Best decision ever made.We've been together 1 year and two months.

TL;DR!!
Short version: Guy friend zoned really hard. Got talked into giving him a chance. I'm going to marry him someday.

I assumed it was common knowledge that an individual is responsible for their own feelings. I can't have 'caused the entire situation' just by being, when I never encouraged it, and because he actively sought to hide his feelings, was unaware of it until just days before it was sorted out (by me).

Fail troll: not offended. But I'm sensing some antipathy here. What's your deal?

Ugly? I'm afraid I missed the part where I said that. Weird, considering that I must have written it. Or could it be that I never did? What I did say was that those were his reasons for having never asked me out.

I should maybe apologise here. I minored in Literature, and often make the grave mistake of assuming that people will catch seemingly obvious inferences in written language.

Look here:
'They all try to pressure me into giving him a chance. Don't want to...will ruin our friendship+not attracted to him." I make the assumption that the reader will realise that these are my reasons for not wanting to pursue a relationship with him.

"His friends try to pressure him to ask me out. Won't cause....tall and skinny and likes video games... " My assumption here is that the reader will now conclude that these are HIS reasons for not wanting to ask me out. They weren't 'judgements' that I had made towards him, but excuses that he made up himself to avoid having to make any difficult decisions about his feelings. I'm not just making up reasons to suit an ego that you seem to be trying to pin to me; I know these because he TOLD me. 'Cause you know...he's my boyfriend. And we do talk occasionally.

I'm not going to pretend I'm something that I'm not just because some wounded boy refuses to believe that his tightly held cliches and generalisations are not true of all women. Look, I'm far above average intelligence, and I'm attractive. I say that because it's true, not out of conceit. He, not I, assumed those things would be a barrier to any potential romance between us. He felt that he was somehow inferior to me. The fact that we're now together should have proved to you the lie in that belief. It seems your own prejudices make you see only what you want to see.

I love my boyfriend. I'm lucky to have him; not the other way around. I think he's hot as fuck, and believe me when I say that he no longer entertains those insecurities he started our relationship with.