<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

I have a friend that I'm attracted to, and we've been good friends for years. When we first met, I was just a friend but he had feelings for me. I only found out when he kissed me spontaneously. I was in an complicated relationship at the time. He stopped talking to me after we talked that it's not going to happen.

We didn't talk for awhile but we returned to being friends. We even hooked up, but it didn't work out afterwards due to complications. Ever since then we both seem to be dating someone or not single at the same time. I'm terrified that we unintentionally put ourselves into the friend zone. But I feel that we still like each other, we spend so much time sometimes, we talk for hours and only recently I've been cutting it shorter cause I'm afraid of doing something stupid. In hopes of breaking the cycle, I stopped dating completely early this year. It's been rough.

I want to tell him that I like him, but I don't want to disrupt our friendship again. (Because we don't talk for weeks when it happens) It also turns out I'm going out of town and he's going to the same place around the same time and we're planning to meet up and hang out while traveling. I don't want to make any waves that'll affect the trip (it's soon) - but my friends are pushing me to tell him my feelings again. 

I mean, I only have my gut feeling that we still like each other, also I think he knows that we like each other (we give each other gifts, and we go eat dinner often etc). I could be horribly wrong about it. I know he's casually dating someone right now and I know he likes her. 

Maybe I should give up for the hundredth time and date someone else only to realize I'm in love my friend, while he figures out I'm causally dating when he's not and we stop talking for few weeks until we go back to being friends. The cycle, it never ends.
<bot>: I friend-zoned myself. I want to tell him I still like him, but I don't know if I should.