<human>: I have a friend that I have known for 8+ years. I have known I was attracted to her from day 1, but have never told her or asked her out. I have always wanted to ask her out, but she has never gave me any sign that she wanted to be anything other than friends so I always stopped myself.

During January I came to the slow realization that I am almost 30, and she is the most amazing woman I know. At that time she was single and so I decided I was going to talk to her. 

I gave myself a hard deadline of trying to get time to talk to her starting the week after Valentines Day. So I texted her about getting a drink Friday (something we have done many times as just the two of us) and she replied that she couldn't because she had a date. 

Her going on dates has never bothered me before, in fact I usually hoped that she would meet some great guy because I only wish her the best in her life. But something about this time broke something in me. I am guessing because I had worked myself up so much and was mentally prepared to tell her how I had felt all these years only to have the timing come smash it back in my face. So now I have a huge level of pent up emotions I didn't know I could have and I am unsure of what I should do now. Since then I haven't seen her in person, but we have texted each other a couple of times and she is 'officially' dating this new guy.

So my question to the women of reddit is this: If you were friends with a guy for years, would you personally want to know if he had feelings for you even if you were already in a relationship? Women that have had guys confess this after a long time, how did you feel? Did it make things weird?

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: Have had a long term friend that I had feelings for. Decided to tell her, but before I could she started dating someone and now I don't know what to do.