Now That I'm Ready to Date Him, He’s With Someone Else

Dear Bossip,

I am a 24 year old woman and have been friends with a guy the same age as me for 9 years now.

But, I recently ended the friendship because I felt the time had come for the playing around to stop.

We first met when we were 13 years old, and then met again at 15 years old and started talking. Even though we liked each other and wanted to be together, being that we were so young and lived in separate states, it couldn’t happen so we just talked on the phone and hung out whenever I came to his town where my grandparents lived to visit.

Well, I ended up moving to his town for college and he wanted us to get serious, but I said no since I was just starting school and wanted my freedom. He understood and we continued just being cool. He started dating someone and