I shall offer him a rose!

Kudos for being brave and trying. Rarely are wonderful thing won without bravery and sacrifice..

The hesitation is interesting, no doubt. Who knows, in time he might come back and have more to say. In the meantime, I think you handled it wonderfully..

 

Aww, that's too bad TT_TT

 

What a lovely gesture and you are really a wonderful person to do such a brave thing.

I'm sure you can understand that if he isn't out, going to the prom with you is a huge step and would be overwhelming on top of whatever he may already being going through if he is gay.

As he didn't give being gay as the excuse, the possibility is still there. Especially how he tried to make sure you were ok so often. If it doesn't work out, at least you have a great friend

Hugs from England (&&&)

 

Well this sounded wonderful even if it didn't end super well. You could've gotten a very negative or aggressive response, and you didn't. And now you know, you can count on him as a friend at least. And friendships are wonderful to have as well, but like you said, who knows, maybe he said no because he's vloseted and doesn't want to b eout or whatever! Just do not think too much about it, I feel it's a common mistake to put too much hope into these things (I suffer from that as well)

 

thats great dude go for it (*hug*)

 

Time is a healer.

Find something to distract yourself for a while, but please don't keep drinking.

 

He's not the only guy in the world. Then again, you don't even know if he could be into you or not. You need to restock emotionally, you have to have other goals, hobbies you can rely on in times like this.

I say give time to yourself to recharge, and to him so that if he had the slightest thought of maybe being gay, it can develop. And if nothing happens you need to convince yourself that it won't lead anywhere other than you hurting even more. And affection should be something positive.

 

it's so sad that you got rejected but don't lose hope. love will come to you someday.

 

I say finding a hobby would be good for you. For example: during a horrible year in which pressure, stress and anxiety had me disturbed, gardening helped me a lot. Plants, unlike people, always give positive reaction if you give them the right about of water, pamper them with fertilizer or those green pills with vitamins...

You could also pick up painting, scrapbooking, sculpture, birdwatching, studying about fancy cars...or perharps something more active, like a sport. Or even, instead of drinking to forget, start looking up liquor tasting. Anything works, as long as it keeps your attention.

 

So true about the hobbies, it got me through depression in school and ended up putting me far ahead of the rest at university. Sometimes things do have an upside.