DEAR DEIDRE: SINCE I confessed that I wanted more than friendship, my best female friend has been avoiding me.

I’m an 18-year-old guy and she’s 19.

Everybody said we’d make a great couple.

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When I told her I fancied her and wanted her to be my girlfriend, she said she didn’t feel the same way.

Now I worry I’ve lost her friendship too.

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DEIDRE SAYS:  Rejection is always painful, but you cannot make someone have feelings if they don’t.

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Give her a little space and then contact her to say you don’t want to lose your friendship.

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