Well, welcome first off... I'm not sure how old you (both of you) are, but I imply from the braces and carless-ness that this is around high school, somewhere between 15 and 18ish? Well, that is part of my point. I had a female-friend in high school who I was more or less attracted to who was very lovey dovey and affectionate towards me... as I later opened my eyes and saw she was like this with everyone... Anywas, sounds like the two of you are quite close.

Two points I wanna make here. First of all is how women see male friends. COMPLETELY different than how guys see girls that are cool to hang with but they wouldn't want to date. With guys, its all one ladder. Cindy Lou may be on a low rung (the friend zone) but look she got boobs over the summer and she started working on cars. Up like 8 rungs immediately into the gf zone. With girls, though, there are two completely separate ladders, one for friends, and one for boyfriends. Right now you are on the friends ladder, sorry to say, and it is an extremely dangerous jump over pools of hungry alligators to get to the bf ladder... She says "I love you" and makes the funny, affectonate jokes about the houses and the cars and such because she sees you as a friend. Now, may I say, I am merely 20 years old, and I certainly know jack sh*t about love and life, but EXPONENTIALLY more than I did in highschool even a few years ago. You are caught up in this idea of having a commited relationship with someone you are close to, which is good... but she is toying you around like a string puppet bitch and you let her know you like that, which is bad... Seems to be a very common issue on these forums of people hanging out as friends with someone they have romantic interests in... can I just say that NEVER WORKS... there I said it... I know yall are good friends and all, but maybe less contact would help YOU... because it seems like you are the only one with these deeper feelings... ok, she 'says' you will get married and have tons of kids later, but for right now, I'm going to date someone on my other ladder if you don't mind... Take a stand, man! It's all or nothing at all in this business, so either you need to find a way to change how you feel (minimizing contact would help here) or tell HER how you feel and let her know she is confusing you and ultimately hurting you. She is most likely making you her little bitch because she thinks you are fine with it... DON"T BE FINE WITH IT Tell her that you are your own person, and if she wants to have a romantic relationship with you, then she can come and get it, but you are not going to wait around and watch her go through all these jerk ass guys while you stand on the sidelines watching and having your heart torn out. Honesty and communication of your feelings and needs can solve most any issue! Let us know how things progress.