If you are going to take the plunge and tell your feelings (okay, this applies to both genders) then be prepared to be rejected.
When you open up to someone, you're taking a risk of being shut down. Don't expect that just because you feel a certain way about the other person, they'll feel the same way about you.
To gain something, you should be willing to lose something. If you're not willing to lose, and you do lose, then you'll just get bitter, and nasty, and grumpy, and open a new thread here and start fussing, and more grumpy, feel sorry and depressed, and cry, and then eat, and eat more, and even more, and then get overweight, and then have two reasons to cry and be grumpy about.
But if you don't let yourself be bothered by rejection, and you aren't afraid of it, then when you do get rejected, you don't lose your spirit. You don't get discouraged. Instead of being bitter at that person, or thinking you're a loser, you'll just say "It just didn't work out this time" and keep going forward.
Statistically speaking, eventually you will meet someone who will say "yes" to you.
Sure, there are a lot of things you can do (and avoid) to give yourself a statistical advantage. But that's a different topic.
When you open up to someone, you're taking a risk of being shut down. Don't expect that just because you feel a certain way about the other person, they'll feel the same way about you.
To gain something, you should be willing to lose something. If you're not willing to lose, and you do lose, then you'll just get bitter, and nasty, and grumpy, and open a new thread here and start fussing, and more grumpy, feel sorry and depressed, and cry, and then eat, and eat more, and even more, and then get overweight, and then have two reasons to cry and be grumpy about.
But if you don't let yourself be bothered by rejection, and you aren't afraid of it, then when you do get rejected, you don't lose your spirit. You don't get discouraged. Instead of being bitter at that person, or thinking you're a loser, you'll just say "It just didn't work out this time" and keep going forward.
Statistically speaking, eventually you will meet someone who will say "yes" to you.
Sure, there are a lot of things you can do (and avoid) to give yourself a statistical advantage. But that's a different topic.