<human>: I recently (like 6 months ago) started dating my best guy friend of 3 years. I would say I know him pretty well, we always got along like punch and loved to do everything together. 

There was always some kind of spark between us but he had a girlfriend for 2 of those years so we always just took the mantra "friends first" and remained completely platonic and that was fine, I just loved hanging out with him and him me.

When we started seeing each other, everything was great and all we wanted to do was be together, classic honeymoon stage. We baked and cooked together, he brought me flowers and stuff and we both felt so loved and appreciated.

Fastfoward to about 4 months into the relationship, he tells me he has a crush on this girl at work. He says he still loves me and would never dream of leaving me and that he doesn't understand why this girl is so interesting to him.

This really undermines my confidence and I started trying to get him to be more of a boyfriend to me (more time together and such). We kept going on but felt really out of sync. 

2 months or so later, we are trying to talk about why this feels so weird to us and he lets me know that he feels that I am making our relationship into a chore for him by expecting the same stuff I got in the honeymoon phase. We ended up breaking up for a little bit but during that time missed each other horrendously and talked almost every day and stuff. We both feared being without each other as we have been insanely close both as friends and lovers and would be lost.

Now we are together but I fear that everything he is doing is so that he doesn't have to be alone and without his former best friend. Even though he does things for me and we make an effort do to things together, they feel stiff and awkward. Im scared to bring up how I feel again in case he thinks things are normal and he is happy and its just me causing problems.

WE DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS. HELP US PLEASE.

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<bot>: former best friend turned boyfriend and I are feeling like this relationship is forced but we don't want to separate at all. How can we make this feel normal again?