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Input: Over the years I've gotten closer to my coworker as we both progressed through our careers. She is extremely smart and always willing to help whenever I was "stuck", so I built up a dependency on her as we progressed together. Late last year we began meeting on the weekends to play tennis as she was always looking for a partner to play with, and we'd go to lunch afterwards and just generally hang out; that is when I started developing feelings for her and wanting to see her more. I didn't want to complicate our close work relationship; but I couldn't control how I felt, either.

I decided to stop being so available since I wanted these feelings to go away, but she kept persisting asking if everything was okay. I finally decided that I needed to know where she stood but ultimately found out that the feelings were not reciprocated :(. In a sense I felt a lot of relief because it meant I could move away from this emotional attachment I had towards her, but I also wanted some real distance away in all aspects (ie. weekend meets, work emails/messages, text, etc.) to facilitate that removal. She wanted to continue the friendship and tried in the beginning to talk like nothing happened, but it was sometimes difficult for me since the feelings lingered, so I ultimately stopped responding in the supporting way that she was used to. That caused a snowball effect where she stopped responding as well and it has now deteriorated our once close friendship to now of just purely coworkers who talk only about work and only when necessary. We no longer just "check in" to see how the other is doing, and any conversation lacks the emotional depth and support it once had. 

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I still think she has a heart of gold and is an overall great person, but towards me she is cold and indifferent and I probably deserve that in someway for causing all this in the first place. I never told her I wanted the distance since she seemed really persistent in not talking about my feelings, so I just never got the chance to explain my perspective. AITA for abandoning a once great relationship to get over my own emotional attachment?

ending a close relationship to get over a crush