Q: This past year, I developed a crush on a guy who works in the same building as me. Although we talk nearly every day, it took me over five months to ask him for his phone number. Since then, we have been texting sporadically. Sometimes it takes him one or two days to respond, but more recently, it has taken him a little over a week to respond to one of my texts. While I don’t want to appear too desperate, I usually respond to his texts right away (or within a day or so at most). All my friends say he is not worth it and that I should move on. What do you think? Should I give up on this chance for love? Or should I outwardly declare my feelings to him?
Hopelessly in Love
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Carrie Brownstein is a musician and a writer/director in film and television. She was the cocreator and costar of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning comedy series Portlandia. Brownstein has directed television shows for HBO, HBO Max, NBC, Comedy Central, and Hulu. She also directed a short film for KENZO starring Mahershala Ali and Natasha Lyonne. Brownstein is a founding member of the seminal punk-rock band Sleater-Kinney and author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
