Originally Posted by
vashti
Why don't you tell her that as soon as she gets rid of the boyfriend, you are going to ask her out on a date? This will plant the seed that you are interested without crossing any lines.
Sorry guys, but IMO it isn't over until there's a ring on that finger.
i agree and disagree with this...i can't really decide yet.
i've had someone do that to me...come in and "woe" me while i was dating someone for 3.5 years. i ended up breaking up with him and dating the other guy...but it wasn't only because i was really attracted to the othe rguy but because he made me realize all the BAD things i've always known were going on in my old relaitonship...that it was unhealthy and he just catlyzed the the break up that NEEDED to happen that i didn't have courage for.
on the other hand...i also had this siutation with someone who wasn't as direct and forward with me but we knew we liked each other without words...i really respected teh fact that he didn't tell me to break up with the guy i was with regardless of how many times i complained about how he was treating me disasturously (sp?). in the end he ended up being the more mature of the two situations, the least jerky and the more genuine.
maybe just be friends witht her...and get ot know her really well...and give her very SUBTLE hints...don't just be liek "hey you i'm good for you, he isn't" because in my experiece the latter ended up beign a jerk and the former was the best relationship i've ever had.
but then again it depends on WHO you are to see if you will be more genuine...but you seem like you are considering the fact that you seem to truly feel for her, it doesn't seem like just some kind of game to you (like it ended up being for the first siutation of mine).
so basically what i'm saying is maybe if you make her realize gradually that she DOES have feeling sfor you, without making it too obvious, she'll start to realize that you are the kind of person she wnats and start to see the flaws (that you say are there) in her current relationship that she might just be too scared to leave.