<human>: Me and my best guy friend have been messing around for a while. We both have feelings for each other but he's going to be traveling for a couple of months and we have decided to not try anything for now. 

Anyway, that's not the problem. I am part of his group of friends, we all hang out all the time and I am close with all of them. They don't know about us messing around and crap.

A couple of weeks ago one of his friends started trying to get closer to me (asking me out, trying to talk about more intimate stuff, etc). I passively shut him off and it caused him to stop talking to me. 

Yesterday i noticed the same thing starting to happen with another one of his friends (his best friend to be exact). 

My problem is that, i don't want to tell him that his friends are making advances on me. However, i'm afraid that if i keep shutting them down that i'll start being excluded from the group and lead him to think that his friends don't like me. He values his friends greatly and I doubt anything will continue with us if his friends don't like me...

I'm unsure of what to do at this point. I want to tell him about his friends but i also want to respect their privacy (they are also my friends, and I wouldn't do something like that to my friends).

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<bot>: Crush's friends making move on me, i shut them down, they stop talking to me. Afraid i'll get excluded from group and my crush will think his friends don't like me.