<human>: To be honest I don't really know how to ask this...

Well I have a friend that I think would make a very good partner in life. There are many reasons why I haven't done anything towards a romantic relationship. One of the reasons, which is the biggest of the reasons is that I don't want to mess up our friendship.(This has been a problem of mine for many, many years, and not just with this girl.) I also have very mixed feelings about being in a relationship at this moment in my life. I wan't a girlfriend, but I don't at the same time. I've thought about telling her how I feel, but I don't want her to think I've been nice to her for over 5 years just because I want to get into her pants. That is most defiantly not the reason. There is only one reason why I'm nice to people, because they are human. My question isn't how do I get her, but I guess more or less what should I do? It isn't killing me, or even painful that we aren't in a romantic relationship. Even when she's had boyfriends it didn't hurt. I was very glad to hear that she had found happiness. Then one day I found out that she might move to another state(She didn't). Which really made me start to think. I just don't want to regret anything in life. I fell that not telling her might be such a thing. As if she could become the 'girl that got away' sort of thing. Again I don't want to mess up our friendship. That to me is the most important part.

To sum it up. I'd like to know how you as a women would react to a long term friend, I guess reveling their feelings for you? Would it hamper the friendship? Would you rather not know? Thank you all in advanced.

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<bot>: Don't want to mess up long term friendship. But I also don't want to regret not telling them my feelings. How would you react to a long term friend reveling their feelings towards you?