have you ever badly hurt someone because you aren't ready for an actual relationship?

it happend with a guy one time who was one of my best friends. he askes me out and i didnt like him back. he wouldnt talk to me for ages so i just said yes. it went on for months and i never intended to hurt him but i was such an idiot for saying yes. after i broke up with him he was so upset and i felt like the worst person ever because i hurt him......   1 reply

There was a bunch to the point that I blame them for liking me. Ever since the start of high school, people who I knew from middle school confessed and I could never see them in that way so once I rejected all of them, they stopped talking to me. This has been going on with other people and I don't know how to stop this...I hate that they love me ......   reply

I became friends with this guy through anime and stuff. I could kinda guess that he liked me from the word choices of his texts. But I thought I was being too self-conscious, and I never thought someone could like me. So when he did say that he liked me (through text) I tried to gently reject him. I didn't want to be in a relationship until I was o......   reply

No, but I'm the one who got hurt. He only liked me as a friend and things got awkward pretty quickly. Looking back it was better to have a clear answer, even if it hurt and it hurt a lot. I lost a bunch of friends because of it, too. I still sometimes think about that time and get sad. I have never been good at making friends, so loosing them bec......   reply