1. Meeting.
If you’re anything like me, you’ll start to notice an interest almost immediately most of the time.
2. Attempted Chill.
You decide to casually mention your new friend to anyone who will listen. Those who know you well roll their eyes and prepare to be bombarded with information about this new person for an indefinite amount of time. You may still be pretending you’re indifferent at this point, or just excited to make a new friend. This has been known to be the shortest phase of a crush, and takes a sharp turn into...
3. Inciting Incident.
Something small happens that forces you to accept that yep, you like someone, again. All your chill from the previous step goes out the window. This is the point where you start finding yourself unable to think about much else.
4. Spiraling.
This phase is the most fun for the person with the crush. You hang out with them a lot, every song is about them, you’ve taken up a new art form to express yourself etc. This is the point where your friends have had enough and push you to tell them how you feel, if for no other reason, so you’ll stop talking about it. This is the longest phase of the crush.
5. The High Point.
This is it. The point in which you’ve got yourself so worked up that there has to be some kind of evolution in the relationship. This is where you’ve started to tell yourself that it’s better to know for sure than to be wondering forever.
5B. The Push. Not a phase on its own, but the most important part of the whole thing.This is when you find out how your crush feels, making it either the best or most miserable part.
6. Resolution.
At this point, you are either in a new relationship or dealing with a broken heart. If you fall into the second category, you’re probably worrying that you’re not good enough. You are. You’re fantastic, and the right person won’t need to be convinced of that, they’ll figure it out on their own. You may be concerned you’ll never like anyone that much again. You will. Remember how many other times you’ve thought that and found someone else. You’re thinking that maybe all the time you spent liking the other person was a waste. It wasn’t.
One day you will look back on this and be grateful for the memories that are currently bringing you the most pain -- the good ones. And in the midst of all this, you’re either looking forward to the next time you’ll go through all of this again or completely dreading it, and the great thing about that is that it’ll happen anyway.
