What are some reasons why people don’t date even though they love/like each other?

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1. Having other compatibility issues. One or both parties not being able to healthily be in a relationship.

2. Because they’re friends and are afraid that it will ruin what relationship they already have

3. * They don’t want to complicate what they already have.

   * They just don’t see each other that way.

   * They tried, and it didn’t work out.

   * They’re in relationships with other people.

   * Incompatible sexual orientation

   * Other incompatibilities (life goals, values, etc.)

   * They don’t live nearby, and they don’t want a long-distance relationship.

4. Because they don’t realize it.

5. As shitty as it sounds…

   Money, relationships can be expensive.

6. No sexual chemistry

7. Incompatibilities that don’t always survive the love/feelings such as distance, timing, emotional availability, stage of life, different belief systems, opposite sex drives, contrasting ways of managing money, etc

8. Incompatible cultures/families, incompatible life goals. The end-date is already set (like moving overseas). Someone is doing real work on themselves. Or just incredibly busy.

9. He’s married

10. I like a lot of my friends, even love them in a way, but I am just not attracted to them.