Do you think unrequited love can kill someone from the depression and physical tugging of the heartstrings? Because it feels like I'm gonna die. I had a crush that got worse and worse, on a friend who is not attracted to my gender, after finding out the love of my life who i had been with half of our lives was in love with someone else and had feelings for others that he didnt have for me. getting that crush on that friend was wonderful, we get along and chill so well together and we talk for hours, but I slowly shut myself in because my feelings are too big and I don't want to hurt them and drive them off. So I'm ironically driving them off anyway by not talking and them losing interest in me as a friend. they say we'll always be friends no matter how long we go without talking, but sometimes it hurts too much to talk. I feel like an incel 🤕