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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Technical_Hall_9387 on 2026-03-27 16:41:07+00:00.
So this didn’t all happen today, but it kind of blew up today.
I (21M) had a crush on this girl (20F) for a few months. We talked pretty much every day, and I convinced myself there was something there. So I finally told her how I felt.
She rejected me, but in a nice way. Said she values me as a friend and didn’t want to ruin that. Fair enough, but after that I just felt awkward. I didn’t want to keep acting the same, so I slowly started distancing myself. I stopped texting first and kept things short.
Here’s where I probably messed up.
Around the same time, I started talking more to her best friend (20F). It wasn’t planned or anything, we just ended up chatting more and actually clicked really well. Like… way better than I ever did with the girl I liked.
Fast forward to now, we talk almost every day and it’s kind of obvious we’re close.
Today, the girl who rejected me confronted me and basically said it’s weird and disrespectful that I distanced myself from her but got close to her best friend. She thinks I’m doing it to make her jealous or get back at her.
That wasn’t my intention at all, but now that she said it, I can kind of see how it looks from the outside.
Now things are awkward with her, her best friend is stuck in the middle, and some mutual friends are saying I handled everything badly.
So yeah… TIFU by trying to move on and somehow making everything more complicated.
TL;DR: I got rejected by my crush and stopped talking to her and got close to her bff