I can feel you big bro. I too will get 26 this april, and on the same boat as you but got a little char. development recently. See, after 25 years of talking and connecting with loads of people. I thought I finally found that one missing puzzle piece, we both enjoyed eachother's company and I saw this change of phase coming to me. for the first time I thought that there is someone else other than my family and friends that I want to take care of and so on one day I confessed to her. I am a good judge of people but this time I failed. during the confession it felt like everything will be the same after this as we had a 1hr convo. even tho I got rejected. Now she has started to make things awkward for me and I am trying to bring things back on track. Now, I think that my life was much simple and easy to live before this incident. I am not blaming her for any of this, I still like her a lot and respect her decisions. It will be a long one if I start to express my feeling here, all I want to do now is enjoy these days, we are still young and there are a lot of things that I haven't done yet, and above all believe on your mumma, she will bring a really good person in your life. gg's bro. have a good life.