How to Keep Your Friend From Knowing You're in Love

Sometimes it isn't the best decision to move on from "just friends."

Being in love with a friend or the significant other of a friend can be difficult--if you don't want to ruin your friendship, you must keep your feelings to yourself. It may seem easy enough to keep your feelings of love private, but unless you are exceptionally secretive it is sometimes very obvious when one feels this way towards a friend. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to keep your feelings secret.

Instructions

1. Maintain your usual behavior around your friend. As friends, she is familiar with your behavior and will begin to suspect something is up if you start behaving differently.

2. Refrain from accepting invitations from her that you would not ordinarily accept. If your friend invites you to the opera knowing you hate it and always turn her down, don't accept the invitation. Suddenly changing your likes and dislikes to appease her is a tell-tale sign that your feelings for her have changed.

3. Confide your feeligs in no one but yourself. Your friends may swear to keep your feelings to themselves but if one has that second glass of wine at your birthday dinner and decides to play matchmaker, it could ruin your secret.

4. Treat her the same way you've always treated her. Don't stop if you always joke with her and give her a hard time in a brotherly sort of manner.

References

• Psychology Today: Is It Immoral to Keep Romantic Feelings to Yourself?