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Has anyone else thought they had a crush, but later learned about squishes?

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I excepted that I am ace surprisingly quickly, but then, I was reading more about it, and there is something called a squish...

 

                 ...that described every single "crush" I ever had. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Squishy cake said:

Has anyone else thought they had a crush, but later learned about squishes?

 

I did have a friend I was deeply connected with and thought I might have had a crush on them but then realized I didn't really want to be romantic with them even though everyone thought we were dating. 

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"Squish?" :blink: I'm learning a lot, but what is this?

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Just now, Tairaadansu said:

"Squish?" :blink: I'm learning a lot, but what is this?

 
 

Deeply Intimate friendship 

 

A squish is a platonic crush, one where you like someone and want to be close to them, but not in a romantic way.

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9 minutes ago, Sherlocks said:

I did have a friend I was deeply connected with and thought I might have had a crush on them but then realized I didn't really want to be romantic with them even though everyone thought we were dating. 

Same. It happened to me a lot. But whenever I thought about dating my "crush" I would realize that wasn't what I wanted.

i was so confused 

still am 

thank you for the feedback 

does anyone else have a crush-squish story?

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4 minutes ago, Sherlocks said:

Deeply Intimate friendship 

 

A squish is a platonic crush, one where you like someone and want to be close to them, but not in a romantic way.

Ok, that makes sense. I've had some squishes then.

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Anthracite_Impreza

I used to think I must have crushes on various characters, then I realised squishes were a thing.

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Oh.

I've just had an epiphany. I didn't realise this was a thing!

This exactly describes what I just went through with my best friend. Wish I'd heard about this before we tried dating, which ended really badly because I didn't have romantic feelings for him. Maybe now I know I won't lose my best friend next time 

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Yes! I thought I had a crush on my neighbor when I was like 13 but it was a squish actually.

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I confused both squishes and aesthetic attraction for crushes in the past. Really freaked me out, because I squish on children sometimes.   

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  • 6 months later...

yES DEFINITELY. i once thought i was smitten towards an internet celebrity a few years ago, but no, it was just a squish. (he was so cute and chubby and socially awkward and funny and that's why i think i was drawn to him; i saw myself in him and admired him greatly.) but this was also back before i figured out a was a lesbian, so at that point, i thought really any good, deep, sweet, respecting feeling towards someone was a crush. :redface::redface::redface:

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princesa_calavera

omg This just happened to me tho. I thought I had a crush on a girl from my campus and then realized it was just a squish. .-. 

But it was a bit upsetting for quite a while.

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Both "crushes" I thought I had turned out to be squishes.

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On 10/02/2017 at 2:35 AM, Sherlocks said:

Deeply Intimate friendship 

 

A squish is a platonic crush, one where you like someone and want to be close to them, but not in a romantic way.

Thanks again for that because I just blacked out on the definition.

 

I'm drowning in a squish then. But I was concerned this was a crush at first because... just no.

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Sortof, I wouldn't go far as to call it a squish, but I was trying to convince myself I felt romantic attraction at the time so...

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The_Reluctant_Dragon

ALL THE FREAKIN TIME! Before I found out about squishes, I always thought I had crushes, it was weird though, since, I always new I just wanted to be their friend.

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I think I may have mistaken all of my squishes as crushes..

 

Edit: Idk. I'm pretty sure I have felt infatuation before a few times in my life. But I don't know if I actually wanted a relationship with any of them, maybe I just liked the idea in my head.

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Perilous Poozer

Yep! Definite infatuation, but I would have quite literally run away if any of them had tried to do anything. I didn't know about squishes.

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Most definitely. When I went travelling round the US, I had a huge squish on the tour manager. I thought about him all time, and got nervous around him because I really wanted him to like me. Since he was a man, and fairly good-looking, I assumed I had a crush on him. I thought about kissing him a grand total of one time, and it made me really uncomfortable! Looking back, it was definitely a squish.

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I'm currently massively confused about which of the two I feel towards a friend of mine, if it's either of them and not just my brain tryng to fabricate a crush on the most readily available male friend in my life because I want a boyfriend e.e It's confusing being on the aromantic spectrum sometimes, isn't it? I've had regular squishes as a teen though, or something like them, where I get a bit giddy about the idea of being friends with someone and feeling really happy whenever I spoke to them, more than I would with my normal friends, but I never even considered them as crushes.

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I haven't had too many crushes compared to other people, but I think a lot of my crushes have probably actually been squishes. Regardless of whether I think I like someone romantically, I tend to have a lot of squishes. I guess I just want to be friends with a lot of people :P.  I think I've only had a few real crushes, but to be honest, I'm not sure if it's because I actually wanted a relationship with them or because I just liked the idea of a relationship with them. Who knows. 

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  • 1 year later...

Before I knew what squishes were, I thought I had a crush on my friend. I told him and........he kinda freaked out and it ruined our friendship. I wish I had known what it was back then.

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When I was younger I didn't know you could be anything but straight, so I thought my obsessions with boys were crushes, but my obsessions with girls were just wanting to be friends (I didn't know the term squish).

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AmorphousBlob

Oh my god yes. All the time. That's why it took me so long to figure this out in the first place

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RoseGoesToYale

Hmm... I'm honestly not sure. Probably for some sort of mixture of squish/crush/QPA thing. Upon reflection, I've only had two strong enough to classify as crushes, where romantic feelings were/are specifically involved.

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banana monkey

I had different definitions to the ones in this thread. Mine were - Squish - someone you desire to be friends with. ( any type of friendship) Crush - someone you desire to be in a romantic relationship with. However, I get that most people use squish as - someone you desire an intimate friendship/qp partnership with and if that definition is used I really cant tell the difference no matter how hard I try. Never have been able to. Does anyone have any tips? I would love to be able to determine if my feelings for someone were squish or crush as I keep changing my mind. 

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Lightning Blue Ray

Once I thought I had a crush on a guy I met during an overseas school trip, but looking back, I realise it was only a squish. That was before I knew about asexuality, aromanticism, and the different types of attraction.

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