It's long but good, I promise
Ok, so I'll try to help a brotha out! Haha, well first there are some things that you need to realize. You probably HAVE been in relationships...you just haven't realized it.
<---- Happened to this guy here
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Anytime you go out with a girl... it's a date. Yes ANYTIME, haha. As stupid as it sounds, it's the truth. So anytime you and a girl end up hanging out, you're on a date, if you realize that, and realize that the girl WANTS to spend time with you (until you either screw it up or she loses interest)... that being the reason she's there with you, and I guarantee your confidence will skyrocket.
Now with that said, most times relationships don't work like this. (I just realized this within the last year, I'm 22, haha...so it doesn't really get easy until you put yourself out there more). You don't say this after the first date:
Guy: "I like you."
Girl: "I like you too."
Guy: "Will you be my girlfriend?"
Girl: "OK!"
Most times, you can NEVER say how you feel about the girl, just keep going out together, and then all of the sudden SHE will ask what the status is between you two. Then the ball is in YOUR court and then you're free to be in a relationship, haha. Of course there are exceptions to these scenarios, but generally, this is how they go.
What really opened my eyes was that I used to sit and be upset in the fact that I was never in a relationship and that I never had a girlfrind...but then I talked to this girl (we used to hang out A lot doing stupid crap, haha) this past summer, and she said this...
"When I was your girlfriend..." ...and then I interrupted her and was like "WHOA?! Girlfriend?? When the hell did that happen??"... and she was like "Did you think I hung out with you all of the time for nothing?"
Haha, then I talked to some of the other girls I used to hang out with...and I found out that some of them too considered themselves to be my girlfriend at one point or another, haha.
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So I guess the point is that this girl is not the only girl for you. Billions of girls in this world, and I know right now she seems like the only one that fills your heart with joy...but trust me. You'll find another that is 10 times better, haha. This girl you're after now seems like she's stringing you along. You made the one error guys usually make, and that's telling her how you feel. You put the ball in her court and you made it worse by saying that you'd wait.
She keeps you hanging by that thread of hope so that she KNOWS she has a backup guy, but she'll never move to that backup guy...it's just sort of a girl ego thing, haha...sucks I know, but we've ALL been in your situation.
So I suggest you move on and experience YOUR life...don't put it on hold for someone. I've pretty much told you the secret to dating, haha...I had to figure it out on my own for the most part and over the course of about a decade, haha. But good luck to you man. I know exactly how you're feeling, but I really suggest you move on or you'll be miserable for and "lost" in thought about this girl for awhile. :bigthumb: