Increasingly frustrated, running out of people

Ok, I'll start this off by saying I'm a Christian and most the girls I know are at my youth club cos I go to an all-boys school. I find myself fancying a lot of people as a result of that, but one by one they find boyfriends and I'm left alone. I've only ever had one girlfriend, that was 2/3 years ago and we never got past hugging and it only lasted a month, so effectively I haven't had my first kiss. Recently I'd found myself really attracted to this one girl - she was really sweet, we got on well, and in the few months I've known her I've built up a chat-log 1/2 the size of the chat-log with one of my best friends since 2006. She wasn't allowed a boyfriend until her exams were over, so I was waiting for that. When they finally ended, I waited a week to build up the courage to ask her out, and went for it. She revealed she had started going out with someone the week before. Gutted. Month later and here we are. She had been having relationship issues with her boyfriend, and I'm still attracted to her. However I found myself doing the nice thing and actually helping her stay together or at least so she does the right thing instead of sitting happy thinking it'll be over soon. However now I don't know what to do. She didn't break up with him cos they're giving it a couple of weeks to see how they feel after that. Should I move on, doomed to frustrated singularity for an unforeseen amount of time, or should I hold on and see if she does break up? (Of course I wouldn't do anything immediately on the rebound.) Thanks in advance.

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It's a tough place you're

It's a tough place you're in. But if you still like her, it's not so easy to "move on", even if you really want to (which it doesn't sound like you do).

I'd give her a couple more weeks. Let her decide if she wants to be with her current boyfriend still. You've already waited quite awhile for her, so at this point a few more weeks isn't going to hurt you much more.

But, if she decides to stay with her current boyfriend-- or if at the end of a few more weeks, she decides they're going to wait a few more weeks again to see how things work out-- then I would begin the process of moving away from her for sure.

So, what I would do for the next several days is to firm up your commitment to either waiting for her if she decides to break up, or moving apart with her if she decides to stay with the other guy.

Jude | Tue, 07/22/2008 - 18:16