So we worked together and are friends. He told me he likes me and I asked him how long, and he said since he saw me. This was when we first started working together and that was 3 years ago. Apparently he’s been flirting with me and I had no clue because I grew up with guys and we roughhoused A LOT, also just joke and play around a lo, which is what him and I usually do; sarcastic comments, jokingly insulting, play fighting.
So everyone at our workplace knew, except me. Anyways, I told him I’m not ready to date and he said he can wait. The thing is though, I dunno if I’ll ever be ready and I don’t think I wanna date him anyways; also told him that. He said cool and we’ve been friends, but he always makes comments like ‘how much you wanna bet people in there thought we were dating’ whenever we come out of a store or somewhere.
He asked me the other day “what would you do if I randomly kissed you?” and that’s when I realized that we can’t ever just be friends. There’s always an awkward air whenever we hang out and it makes me so sad and angry. I don’t think I can keep hanging out with him anymore, so I wanna cut this ‘friendship’. How do I do this?