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Dear Carol,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I have a crush on this guy\u2014and I think he knows. He is super shy, so he won\u2019t ask me if it\u2019s true. I also feel like our texting feed is only filled with chunky paragraphs from me and one-word answers from him. I\u2019m about to spend two days hanging out with him and a bunch of other people. He\u2019s the ideal guy because my mom approves and knows him and his family.<\/strong><\/p>\n -I Think He Knows<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear I Think He Knows,<\/p>\n Enjoy your days together, but try to step back a tiny bit\u2014and maybe text less since he\u2019s not replying with the same energy. If you keep spending time together, it should become more clear what he\u2019s thinking, and I hope he has special feelings, too. But even so, take things slowly. And if he wants to stay in the friend zone? Try not to be too disappointed. Many boys aren\u2019t ready for romance as early as girls are (especially shy boys). One more thing: Just because your mom approves of him doesn\u2019t mean that everything will\u2014or should\u2014fall into place.<\/p>\n Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, including Girltalk<\/em>,\u00a0Speed of Life<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ava and Pip<\/em>. Follow her on Insta\u00a0@carolwestonnyc<\/a>\u00a0and visit\u00a0carolweston.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Searching for more help? Check out more Dear Carol advice here:<\/strong> Dear Carol,\u00a0 I have a crush on this guy\u2014and I think he knows. He is super shy, so he won\u2019t ask me if it\u2019s true. I also feel like our texting feed is only filled with chunky paragraphs from me and one-word answers from him. I\u2019m about to spend two days hanging out with him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":312658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,286,284],"tags":[48,150,42,285,9257,450,461],"class_list":["post-312638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-crushes","category-dear-carol","tag-advice","tag-crushes","tag-dear-carol","tag-life","tag-relationship-advice","tag-teen","tag-tween"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, I\u2019m a perfectionist\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, Is everyone faking wanting to be my friend?\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, My siblings get all the attention\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"