Reading too much into this?

[Anonymous]

Have a female friend who is lovely but that's all it is. No attraction for her and I thought it also applied to her.
We were having a meaningful chat in the car, I gave her a lift home.
She then turned to me and said "I love you and will always be here for you"before giving me a quick hug and leaving.

I have a girlfriend so I am feeling weird and can't stop thinking about it. Should I speak with her about it?

[Anonymous]

What kind of love? Friend love or LOVE LOVE. I have male friends I love, but not romantically.

[Anonymous]

That's what I am questioning. She said it casually but made a quick exit. I just don't know,

[Anonymous]

I think you are reading too much into it.

[Anonymous]

Um. You'll have to ask her.

[Anonymous]

Wait, is she worried you are being bullied, abused, or controlled or anything? Is your GF trying to cut you off? Everything OK on the home front?

Or is the person terminally ill? So many options to choose from.

[Anonymous]

I think it totally depends on what the “meaningful chat” was about.

[Anonymous]

OP here.
She was concerned about me and the talk we were having was meaningful. It just took me completely by surprise and I genuinely don't know what to think.

[Anonymous]

It was about my girlfriend and whether I am ready to be with her after a bad experience with my ex,

OP.

[Anonymous]

We were talking about a past relationship I had and how it impacted on me in a really negative way.

OP.

[Anonymous]

If you’re going through something and that’s what you were talking about, I would assume it was an expression of friendship, not something more than that, and she was trying to communicate that she really does care and wants to be there for you as a friend, you’re not burdening her by sharing what you’re going through.

[Anonymous]

You’re overthinking it. Put your thoughts back where they belong, on your girlfriend, and let this oddity go. If she exhibits another sign of more-than-friend-like affinity then you can rack your brain but for now let it go.

[Anonymous]

Based on what you said, I don’t think there’s reason to assume she meant anything more than friendship by it. It kind of sounds like you’re looking for it to have been more, though, whether because you do have feelings or because you are just looking for an ego stroking. But don’t talk to her about it unless you do have feelings for her and would want to pursue something with her, otherwise you’re just setting her up to feel like a fool if she does have feelings, thinks you share them because you’ve raised the issueso she admits it, and then has to suffer a needless rejection.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. I guess I just feel uneasy now and like I need to say it back. It's weird. Just wasn't expecting it.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like it was friend love.