Dear Queenie,
I am in love with my best friend’s boyfriend. She told me she isn’t in love with him any more and just wants to be friends with him, but she doesn’t want to hurt his feelings. I want to tell her how I feel about him but I’m afraid she’ll laugh at me.
Queenie, what should I do? I feel like I could die from loving him so much and he doesn’t even notice me!—Lovesick
Dear Lovesick,
By all means tell your girlfriend you like her boyfriend and would be happy to console him if she breaks up with him. You don’t have to tell her how much you like him.
Then make yourself available if he wants a shoulder to cry on, and be sure to tell him – lightly, jokingly! – how foolish you think your girlfriend was for breaking up with him. With any luck he will notice you then.
