Help! In Love with my best male friend
Hi All,
I am seperated from my husband. My marriage lasted 2 years because I was not heads over heels in love with my husband; we married for the our son and for financial reason. Lesson learned, I have to be really in love, "heads over heels" in love, with a man because its the love that will make me fight for the relationship. So of course to emotionally help me through the tough seperation was my best male friend. Now the seperation was only tough because I was breaking up a family not because I was in love with my husband. In fact I was so emotionally detached from my husband by the time we seperated. I then started getting feelings for my best friend and he said he had feelings for me but it was bad timing for both us to be togther ( i was coming out of a marriage and he recently broke up with a woman). We decided to have a sexual relationship with the understanding that its bad timing for a real relationship. We all know what happened, I developed deep feelings and we've had a great relationship for the past four months. 2 months ago he vented that he was falling in love with me, he thinks about me all the time, and I have no idea how much I've done for him. I held on to every word he said. After that, I stopped holding back my feelings and let myself fall in love him. But since then I've been expressing it and hinting to him that I want more but he has not returned the feelings or comments. This left me feeling confused and rejected. In fact, now I feel like he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. They broke up 3 years ago after he cheated. He speaks nothing of good for her and constant regret on his part for cheating. I'm not sure if he just still holds the guilt or if he's actually in love with her still. He's noted that she's the only person he would've married.
Now I dont think he has the same deep feelings for me that I have for him. I'm so in love but I haven't told him. I stress about this but he doesn't know it. Now that I've officially filed for divorce, I want us to be together but Im so scared of rejection, I'm scared he's actually still in love with his ex and most of off I'm scared that we will completely lose our 12 year friendship we had before we started dating. He's a wonderful man, who has done nothing to hurt me, he's been so supportive of me. When we make love I feel like I'm in heaven. I just feel that he doesn't want me like I want him which will hurt me more than anything.
What should I do? should I just end our intimate relationship and work toward getting back our friendship?or should I put myself out there more than I already have and possibly hear the worst?